[IDontLikeToPayTaxes]

It's about time if you ask me. The article also states that rap is 30 years old? I didn't know rap was around in 1977.

[brivette]

Down with "C"rap music.

[HIDEK6]

Rap was around in the 20s.

Then they were called "patter songs."

"I'm a Ding-Dong-Daddy from Dumas," is a prime example.

[the808bass]

I enjoyed a lot of different rappers in the 90s. A few in the early part of this millenium. And now there's none that I would listen to on the radio, let alone buy a CD.

Maybe I'm getting too old. More likely, it's all crap.

[KoRn]

Looks like da homies have finally gotten into downloading mp3s.

[jammer]

I didn't know rap was around in 1977.

Actually, I pinpoint the birth of rap (no one else does that I've heard of) to the 60s with Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues.

[Gorzaloon]

The crackheads died off, the Gangstas all killed each other, and everyone else grew up.

[Tijeras_Slim]

How many rap records do you need? They all sound the same.

[Disturbin]

You can olny go so far with a vocabulary of 30 words and referrring to every woman as a ho.

[duckman]

'Jocko' Henderson, a black Philly 50's RnB DJ, did alot of rap on his Rocket Ship show.

[AIM-54]

A ray of hope for our culture!

But I'm not going to get my hopes up too high. .

[durasell]

Established rap artists have been heading for the mainstream for years now. Ice T is on TV, Usher is/was on Broadway, Ice Cube is in movies, and Queen Latifah does make-up commercials. And Will Smith isn't even thought of as a rapper anymore.

[Blackirish]

Rapture by Blondie...1980?

[July 4th]

? I didn't know rap was around in 1977.

A lot of rappers trace their interest in the genre to The Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight," which was released in 1979.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Yep. Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five started in the Bronx in the late 70's.

[Vaquero]

rap...which is not music, is a perverted phenomenon.


daily I am assaulted by boom box cars going by my house with white kids, hats on crooked, blasting this aberration...probably looking to kill whitey....

[Red Badger]

Actually it's "Roots" go back hundreds of years. Have you ever heard (of) "The Signifyin' Monkey"?........

[rabidralph]

Don't you remember "Rapper's Delight" by The Sugarhill Gang?

[RightOnline]

Rap is decidedly 'un-musical'.....and has been done to death. The ....ahem.....urban culture has beaten the dead horse and took it the only direction left: straight down the toilet.

It was a fad, a flash in the pan that held on WAY too long for one simple reason: the ridiculous mindset fostered by the entertainment media that "anything inner-city is cool so LIKE IT".

[Lloyd227]

Ok, not quite 30. Looks like the roots might be traced to about 1979. The Beastie Boys

[rabidralph]

The lyrics are here.