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

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Thirteen:
shouldn't it be called Al now?

i think i'm going to buy a new Al CD today...

or Eminem is a good Aler

Suga Foot:
Do yourself a favor and buy a dictionary.  They call it "Rap Music" because that is the best way to describe it.  "Rap" is just slang for talk/discuss.

Leggy Hendrix:
i thought Gil Scott-Heron was one of the first to make the rap style of delivery popular and bring it to the forefront...and the word rap coming from H Rap Browne, i doubt it...

DAYUM:
Infinite wouldnt give 2 fucks if this dude wasent Musloom...

Jome:
^^ And he's not even right...


rap4   Audio pronunciation of "rap" ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (rp)
n.

   1. Slang. A talk, conversation, or discussion.
   2.
         1. A form of popular music developed especially in African-American urban communities and characterized by spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics with a syncopated, repetitive rhythmic accompaniment.
         2. A composition or performance of such music.


intr.v. rapped, rap·ping, raps

   1. Slang. To discuss freely and at length.
   2. To perform rap music.


[Possibly from rap1.]

    Our Living Language The culture of hip-hop has been the source of dozens of words and expressions in American English, of which rap is one of the most familiar. The word is probably a development ultimately of rap meaning "to hit." It shows up in the early 1900s in the extended meaning "to express orally," as used by so notable a figure as Winston Churchill in 1933. Over the next few decades it came to mean "to discuss or debate informally," a meaning that was well established in the African-American community by the late 1960s. A decade later the word was applied to an evolving style of music characterized by, among other things, beat-driven rhymes of an often improvisatory nature. The slang that is integral to the lyrics of rap continues to be a source of borrowings into colloquial American English; recent examples include chill meaning "to calm down," and diss meaning "to show disrespect to." These are but the latest examples in a long series of such borrowings from Black English stretching back a century or more, many of them directly from popular music lyrics or from musicians' lingo.


1933, Winston Churchwill wins, some Islam dude lose..  8)
I read somewhere that "rap" was used in the early 1900's as "to talk fast", so the Islam dude shouldn't be given much credit..

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