Who "started" rap music?

[Papa Deuce]

I have heard people say it was Blondie. I disagree.

Who do you think started it?

 

[Disneyland1084]

I have NO idea, but rap music SUCKS in my opinion.

 

[Sinderelli]

Run DMC

 

[OceanAnnie]

I read recently that James Brown started rap music with the stop/start method music such as, "Papa's got a brand new bag". Makes sense to me.

 

[Laugh O. Grams]

I have heard people say it was Blondie. I disagree.

Who do you think started it?

Blondie brought it to the mainstream...I'd have to say that Afrika Bambaataa, Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash started rap music as we know it today.

 

[Papa Deuce]

Run DMC

One of my FAVORITES, but rap was around before that. They may have been the catapult to make it popular, though.

 

[dcgrumpy]

Run DMC

Rap was around way before Run DMC, the first time I recall hearing anyone rap wasthe summer of '77 or '78. People used to get together in the local playground at night with turntables, mics etc.. and rap.

 

[Hercules10]

Marlee Matlin

 

[JCJRSmith]

Charlie Daniels doing "Uneasy Rider"

I can't say who "started" it, but I remember the first big rap hit was from "The Sugarhill Gang." I was a bouncer in a disco in Cincinnati back in the early 80's and they played that song incessantly.

 

[JennyMominRI]

Sugarhill Gang
Grandmaster Flash and yes,Blondie

 

[Cool-Beans]

Blondie said at the time that she was just copying what tons of people had been doing on the street and in small clubs for years.

The first true rap song I heard was the Miami Vice one, I think. I don't count Blondie so much.

 

[DawnCt1]

Whoever it was should be imprisoned and force to listen to it 24/7. There is not punishment to harsh for its inventor.

 

[JennyMominRI]

Blondie said at the time that she was just copying what tons of people had been doing on the street and in small clubs for years.

The first true rap song I heard was the Miami Vice one, I think. I don't count Blondie so much.

The First ones I remember were Rapper's Delight by Sugarhill Gang and The Message by Grandmaster flas,and those were in around 1980

 

[Laurajean1014]

RAPPER'S DELIGHT
Single by The Sugarhill Gang
from the album The Sugarhill Gang
Released October 1979
Format 12"
Recorded Sugar Hill Studios
Genre Hip hop
Length 14:37
Label Sugar Hill Records

NOT THE FIRST RAP SONG - BUT THE FIRST RAP SONG TO HIT THE TOP 40!

Exerpts taken from the GrandMaster Website:

There is a slight dispute regarding the actual place of origin. According to Afrika Bambaataa: "A lot of people always think it (rap) started in the South Bronx, but officially it came from the West Bronx, ‘cause Kool Herc (credited with being the first rapper), was from that area. Then it came over to the South Bronx with myself and [Grandmaster] Flash."

The story of rap music has a clear and concise beginning. We will explore that beginning with one of the main personalities in rap, Russell Simmons, who is considered the godfather of rap. Mr. Simmons explains: "I think it was a lot of kids rebelling against dance music, disco music. I think in the 70s it was an industry music, producers’ music, and made for the people by producers who decided what people should have. Rap music was a rebellion by the people to assert what they were really looking for and they weren’t getting it from the producers. The producers and their companies were too far away from the streets. The people just created something for themselves.

"Many years there wasn’t any rap records, but there were a lot of rap shows. You go to a show and you had some rock beat or some jazz beat or some old funk beat and this guy rapping all night. Two or three thousand kids would be at these parties and listen all night. You wouldn’t have one commercial record. You wouldn’t hear, for instance, Patrick Juvette(?), "I Love America." You wouldn’t hear "YMCA," and whatever records were out at the time throughout the whole night. Those are the records you had to hear on Black radio. So kids made their own music."

Daryl McDaniels, a member of the rap group, RUN DMC, offers his view:

"It began in 1976 or ‘77 when disco was real popular. The first disc jockeys (DJs) would grab the mike while people were ‘partying’ and say something like, ‘clap your hands,’ or ‘you all ready to party?’ The crowd would respond to that. Then it evolved. The DJ wouldn’t have to do that because the DJ would bring a guy with him to do that - to motivate the crowd while the DJ deejayed. That got into a lot of the disco clubs and a lot of people weren’t going for it. The MC blabbing and running his mouth all night; the DJ scratching and cutting. Most of the people going into the disco wanted to dance and have a party. They didn’t really want to raise no he!!.

 

[JennyMominRI]

Grand Master Flash with Rapper's Delight - circa 1976.

I could swear that was the SugarHill Gang

 

[Beth76]

Whoever it was should be imprisoned and force to listen to it 24/7. There is not punishment to harsh for its inventor.

As with any kind of music, Dawn, there is some that is bad and some that is good. It may not be your genre, but that doesn't make it horrible. As a whole I'm not a giant fan of rap music, but there are certain songs I enjoy.

 

[monkeyboy]

Harsh commenst

If you do not like it so be it just say so and move on....

 

[JennyMominRI]

Not that wikipedia is always reliable but

Rapper's Delight" is a 1979 single by American hip hop trio The Sugarhill Gang; it was one of the first hip hop hit singles.



[edit] History
"Rapper's Delight" hit #36 on the U.S. pop charts, #4 on the U.S. R&B charts, and #3 on the UK singles chart. It was the first hip hop single to go gold. The following year, the song was the anchor of the group's first album The Sugarhill Gang. In spite of a few more minor hits, The Sugarhill Gang quickly faded into obscurity.

It was the first Top 40 song to be available only as a 12-inch extended version—no 7", 45-RPM record was made.

The song inspired Blondie's 1980 hit, "Rapture", which is considered by some to be the second major hip hop hit after "Rapper’s Delight

 

[Cool-Beans]

I like to think that Dr. Seuss started it.

 

[Kimberle]

The old musical, The Music Man (1962) has a rap song.

I don't remember the name of it, but it's when a group of men are on a train.