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Where did Rap come from? Why we call it "Rap" music? Who it was named after...

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infinite59:
No doubt... it came from the man in my signature...H. "Rap" Browne.

A major player in the civil rights movement of the sixties, with high ranking position in the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and the Black Panther Party, he is now known as Imam Jamil Al Amin since his conversion to Islam in the 70's.  He had the nickname "Rap" because of the many colorful and rhyme-style speaches he used to give in the sixties.  The roots of this colorful, rhythmic way speaking, as H. "Rap" Browne says in his 1960's book, "Die Nigger Die" comes from 'playing the dozens' a game in which inner-city youths would form circles and take turns clowning on eachother, and the crowd would decide by their reaction who was the winner.  This is the roots of battle rap![/i]  H. "Rap" Browne talks about this growing phenomenon and even drops several of his rhymes, iller than anything any rapper is spitting out today, he did all this, all the way back in the 1960's, and it was published in his popular 1960's book, "Die Nigger Die."   So when it came time to choose a name for the one of the 4 elements of hip-hop, they borrowed from the langauge that was already out there, and called it "rap" after H. "Rap" Browne.  This is common knowledge of true hip-hop heads who were around at the time of hip-hop's inception.

H. Rap Browne isn't H. Rap Browne anymore, he has submitted his life to the will of Allah, and has chosen the name Jamil Al-Amin.  It has been decades since he was a rapper, and his tone has changed since his acceptance of Islam.  He doesn't use foul language or curse words anymore.  Infact he has been silenced by the government.  Today, he is a political prisoner, and there are many movements and appeals being made by African American and Islamic groups to achieve his release from prison.

Shallow:
Wow I never knew  rap came from this guy, and he then converted to Islam! If the guy who started rap converted then that means I should convert! You just changed my life!

Kill:
^^ this for once was an interesting post, i'd need to verify "rap" really comes from there, but why u hatin? just cuz infinite wouldn't care about it if that guy wasn't muslim this post contained a few interesting things

Shallow:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

His first paragraph was great. I have no problem with that, even though I feel rap has a lot of other influences that contibuted to it's existance. However the second paragraph was run of the milll infinite trying to convert people. And I felt like having some fun with it. I wasn't hating, I was just having some fun.

Trauma-san:
WOW! I never knew that! I'm gonna go convert. 

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