all real artists has been influenced by...
 

kim burrel (not sure on that spelling) she is a southern gospel singer whose vocal range stunned me , she really exemplifies what music is , she has influenced almost every popular singer or has been tied to there role models , along with that the woman has influneced much of todays rap and hip-hop listen to a few of her songs hit me back with feed back

*this is music in general, most of you prolly havent heard of her ,i'll be surprised if you have but she is a huge part of music period

Yeah, she str8.

very interesting, never heard of her but i will peep her music, thanks for the insight...

^^ Word, I'mm Get Some Of Her Shit.

I thought you were gonna say Pac......what??? I'm just be'n honest.

yes i know but pacs influence is one of the starters of the popular rap game but for music all around , kim burrell really influenced todays and tomorrows music

Yup Same here.

I got my infuence to rap while listening to Pacs songs...

again music in general i know you all listen to pac so do i the root of music is much deeper than just 2 pac you all should know that

if i wanted to get even more specific i'd have to say that rap's first public mainstream artist was blondie cant remember what the song was called but she had one of the first rap solos that got popular , and to be even more specific root of all rap goes to jazz music ,

yeah your close, it does stem from jazz, but what about the sugar hill gang? rappers delight biatches, 1979

You describe her like superwoman so i'll definately peep some of her shit...

jazz is earlier...
 

to what fluid moon said about the song rappers delight by the sugar hill gang,
that did influence rap but jazz was before that jazz probably influenced them to do that or come up wit that song/style

blondie was before the sugar hill gang i love the 80's baby haha