Roots of Rap is dedicated to rap music prior to 1980! It is a blog about the history of rap music and the origins of hiphop culture. It's about rap before there was rap. It's about proto rap until it became mainstrain in 1979 when Sugarhill Gang’s song Rapper’s Delight, introduced a completely new audience to this genre.

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Honky Games by Iris Bell & The Jive-Ettes (1973)

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The Signifyin’ Monkey by The Johnny Otis Show

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