[Ads-l] Antedating of "Rap" (Musical Genre)

[Shapiro, Fred]

rap (OED, n.2, 8.c., 1980)

1974 Boston Herald American 6 Nov. (Genealogy Bank)

Perhaps the turnout reflects the absence of a recent Rawls hit record in the Keen market of Motown, "love" rap, "soul" rap, rab and disco-music. ... "I was the one who started that whole rap thing," Rawls explained after the first show.  "Isaac Hayes and Barry White picked that up from me."

Fred Shapiro


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