I dont think we could ever pin point "who" actually started hip hop...cause its been around since the first slaves came to america...but i bet it was allready in africa before they even set foot in the ships....

It would off been somthign they naturally done,just like we do now, but in a more plain way/not so commercial..it would of just been a pass time to sing/rap/say words that rhyme.but none of them would of acctually label it rapping or hip hop...they wouldnt of even labeled music....fuck they had to entertain themselfs some how on the slaveships.

That nigkah afrikaa is the godfather of hip hop! he was the one who acctually gave it a name and a place in modern society.

Also check this link for more infomation

http://www.b-boys.com/hiphoptimeline.html#1973

Yup hes right.

Hip Hop was born of Africans, but developed and progressed by mixture with rock, jazz, soul etc etc all that shit.

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Alexander Graham Bell invented hip hop, then he invented the phone and called everyone and was like "oh guess what i invented...hip hop"

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If any of you are serious about rapping, you really need to know these sort of things off the top..

You cant be part of a culture if your too ignorant to understand it.

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Fuck you all. The dude above me got it all.

hip hop started in the bronx sumwhere in the 70's, n it didnt have a main colour, i mean it wasnt jus blacks or whites, it was for all the inner ciity workin class kids, they made it cuz they had nuthin else, all these guys like afrika bambatta etc were the first commercial rappers n shit but it was around b4 that.

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^Not compleatly the first yeah, but they were still the pioneers of the style and image.. A lot of kids on the street would of learnt from them.

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heres how it really happened we had to learn this when i went to my old school cause it was almost all blacks so for a special class they gave us black history and culture:


i duno the guys name but i know he was black and american and from new york, a white dj started mixin old songs to make beats and pretty soon it caught on everywhere and then a black dj was doin it at a party and he started talkin over the beats but he was rhyming tellin them how to do this one dance and then everyone liked it so he did it again at his next gig and kept doin it and other dj's caught on and it blew up and then that one white biker guy started def jam out of his apartment and it went mainstream

wow i was way wrong then. In my english class we learned that the first form of rap was actually rhapsody's or like epic poems. Like the Odyssey and the Illiad. So if that is true. I would of thought that rap had been around alot longer then what else is being said in this thread. Like 8450328409832042705720 years ago in greece or some shit.

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^nah that was aroudn too im just saying the hiphop we know was formed in the late 70's when they crossed talking and rhyming with a beat. those raps ur talkin about werent meant to b music they were just spoken over an instrument so it made the sotry more interesting

yeah, fuck thats rite, if u think of it in those terms raps been around 4 ever, cuz poems were written in rhymin couplets to make them catchy 4 the poet to remember them and for the listeners to stay interested and they added music sumtimes as well for entertainment lol

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africans dey used 2 make songs runnin away from durr masters da fukk wuld a white person cum up wit hip hop

and those songs didnt have a fuckin thign to do with hip hop all they were was songs that told stories bein sung u could find them in every country during that time period the jews who were enslaved for 10 times longer than blacks had the exact same sounding songs that told stories bout runnin away and bein free dont tag it as a strictly black thing