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The components of rap include "content" (what is being said, e.g., lyrics), "flow" (rhythm, rhyme), and "delivery" (cadence, tone). Rap differs from spoken-word...

psychedelic rap, as her recordings "wove singularly freaky funkiness with proto-rap aggression", particularly on "Shut Off the Light," in which Davis has...

Hip hop or hip-hop, also known as rap and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from the African American...

have suggested that Heron's combination of R&B, soul, jazz-funk, and proto-rap influenced the development of electronic dance music and hip hop. The...

express themselves freely; one group to emerge from the workshop was the proto-rap group Watts Prophets. In the late 1970s in Los Angeles, Alonzo Williams...

Black Enough for You?" (1972). The proto-rap of Gil Scott-Heron is an early influence on political and conscious rap, however, most of his earlier socially...

enjoyed writing poems, in the early '70s Jackson began crafting such proto-rap R&B singles as the outspoken "A Child of God (It's Hard to Believe)."...

Televised". These artists combined spoken word and music to create a kind of "proto-rap" vibe. Following this, early artists of hip hop such as DJ Kool Herc,...

Single by Pigmeat Markham B-side "The Trial" Released 1968 Genre Comedy proto-rap Length 2:40 Label Chess Songwriter(s) Pigmeat Markham, Bob Astor, Dick...

(June 6, 2018). "Jalal Mansur Nuriddin: farewell to the 'grandfather of rap'". The Guardian. Archived from the original on June 21, 2018. Retrieved June...

proto-rap style influenced a generation of hip-hop artists", while The Washington Post wrote that "Scott-Heron's work presaged not only conscious rap...

described as an early version of rapping. Their 1946 song "Noah" is often named as the first recorded instance of rap. The band reached No. 10 on the R&B...

Memphis rap, also known as Memphis hip hop, or Memphis horrorcore, is a regional subgenre of hip hop music that originated in Memphis, Tennessee in the...

Muck" Released 20 July 1979 (U.K.) Studio Eretcia Studios, Rome Genre Proto-rap Length 4:43, 6:41 (12" version) Label Stiff Records Songwriter(s) Ian...

producer Bob Thiele. The music compiled incorporates funk, jazz, and proto-rap styles. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised was released in 1974 and...

2009, the rapper Juelz Santana released the single "Mixin' Up the Medicine", which features lyrics in the chorus, performed by alternative rapper Yelawolf...

citing "Fight from the Inside" and "Get Down, Make Love", as well as the "proto-rap sparseness" of "We Will Rock You". "We Will Rock You" (sample) was released...

wrote that, "in the lineage of the Last Poets and Oscar Brown Jr., these proto-raps embody Scott-Heron's maxim that 'there are at least 500 shades of the...

Watergate incident used by Scott-Heron at his concerts, and it contains proto-rap and talking blues elements, in which rhythmic speech or near-speech is...

present themselves as performers and composers "above" normal pop practice. "Proto-prog" is a retrospective label for the first wave of progressive rock musicians...