RAP Is a Patchwork Quilt, Part 1

As a professor who occasionally teaches HipHop as a literature form, I am tired of useless, divisive debates about the roots of RAP. RAP is an African American artform, and like many African American artforms, it is a patchwork quilt of cultural influences. For the record, I do not own the rights to any of the music that I am about to post. I’m using them for demonstrative, educational purposes and not solely to boost any profits I may receive from this post.

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