Rap History

We got to understand rap been here for a long time
When God talked to the prophets, he was rapping
And when the prophets talked back to God, they was rapping
And then if we wanna bring it up and
Get all up to the modern days and ages
We can start going in the '60s when you had Shirley Ellis
When she did the 'Name Game' and 'The Clapping Song'

We can go to the poetry rapping of Sister Son-, Sonia Sanchez
With The Watts Poets or The Last Poets
We can get into the political or the message rap of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan
Malcolm X or the Honorable Elijah Muhammad
We can get into the-the-the-the party and fun raps of Pete Beat Markham, Mobb Spanky
We can go back to the 'Hi De Hi De Ho' with Cab Calloway
We can go back to the radio disc jockey of Jocko, Eddie OJ
And all the others that did things

We can go back to the love rap of Isaac Hayes, Black Moses
To the love rap of Barry White out there
This is all part of rap
And if all you country people wanna get into the country and western thing
You can take it to Tony Joe White, when he did 'Polk Salad Annie'

This is all dealing with the rap
Rap has always been there