2007-01-26 04:30:51 · 8 answers · asked by chancejuls 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
The Last Poets from the 60's were definitely proto-rappers, using funky backgrounds for their spoken word excursions. As far as something being self-consciously recorded as "rap" I think there was one song that came out prior to Rapper's Delight but it did not have the same impact as that song. When Blondie recorded Rapture they were keyed into records that had already come out of the scene. The song, painful as it is, certainly did spread the word about this new style of music.
2007-01-26 05:23:04 · answer #1 · answered by Murgatroyd 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people say it was Debbie Harry from Blondie, in the song 'Rapture'. I *think* I have heard that Johnny Cash did some rapping, but I can't remember what song, or anything about it.
****looked into it and found this:
Minnie the Moocher," recorded by Cab Calloway in 1931.
source: http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20021120/ai_n12486811
Rapper's Delight was definitely the first 'rap' song though; released in 79.
2007-01-26 12:36:56 · answer #2 · answered by bcs_boadicea 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Blondie in the song Rapture, is the first rap I ever heard of...
2007-01-26 12:40:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Got me. Blonde, in Rapture? But you know when you speed up some Johnny Cash it sounds just like rap.
2007-01-26 12:37:20 · answer #4 · answered by Johnny Afman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would have to say Queen. Believe it or not. Check out Bohemian rapsody, among others.
2007-01-26 12:37:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
sugar hill gang - rappers delight
2007-01-26 12:35:39 · answer #6 · answered by BL 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sugar hill gang
2007-01-26 12:40:40 · answer #7 · answered by Ivette M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Smack That ! - Akon
2007-02-02 09:28:33 · answer #8 · answered by chelko 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋