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Rap Music started in 1979, thanks to a woman by the name of Sylvia Robinson, who recorded the first Rap song to create what is called "Rap Music". You can credit "The Last Poets", Gil Scott Herron, Flash, Herc, Bambattaa, the Jamiacans, the grioters from Africa and everyone else they have told you whom created Hip-hop in 1973, but according to Rapologist-Critic Robert Jr. James McClendon, Rap Music did not start until "Black people" put on wax what they were doing in the clubs, house parties, and parks. They were Rapping back in the 1950's with Douglas "Jocko" Henderson, but it didn't become a "music form", once again, until Sylvia Robinson put it on the record label "Sugarhill". And don't let those so-called other "Hip-hop historians" tell you different. Black Americans created Rap Music, the movie indusrty along with the Bronx gave you all "Hip-hop". Rap Music started in New York from rapping and emceeing, but it became a "music form" when recorded in Englewood, NJ in 1979. Robert Jr. James McClendon

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RUN DMC. it is impossible to know exactly where rap music started because of all the underground and unreleased artists. nonetheless, run dmc coined the term rap music and brought all the popularity to the style.

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Rap Music started in 1979, thanks to a woman by the name of Sylvia Robinson, who recorded the first Rap song to create what is called "Rap Music". You can credit "The Last Poets", Gil Scott Herron, Flash, Herc, Bambattaa, the Jamiacans, the grioters from Africa and everyone else they have told you whom created Hip-hop in 1973, but according to Rapologist-Critic Robert Jr. James McClendon, Rap Music did not start until "Black people" put on wax what they were doing in the clubs, house parties, and parks. They were Rapping back in the 1950's with Douglas "Jocko" Henderson, but it didn't become a "music form", once again, until Sylvia Robinson put it on the record label "Sugarhill". And don't let those so-called other "Hip-hop historians" tell you different. Black Americans created Rap Music, the movie indusrty along with the Bronx gave you all "Hip-hop". Rap Music started in New York from rapping and emceeing, but it became a "music form" when recorded in Englewood, NJ in 1979. Robert Jr. James McClendon

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In the South Bronx.. the Southside Bronx. Listen to KRS-One.. he will explain it all.

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WHEN PEOPLE WERE SMART ENOUGH TO FIGURE IT OUT..X

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late 1970...early 1980 something like that

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in the late seventies

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it started in new york.

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