The Black Voices - On The Streets Of Watts (1969)

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This is the first Rap album. It's not Hip Hop because it doesn't have that boom-bap feel, but they're defiantly not singing, they're reciting poetry.

The Last Poets came a year later, in 1970 with their self titled album.






Their second album was released in 1971. It's a classic but its only 22 minutes.

 

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Its dope but sounds more like spoken word to me, there were loads this in night clubs and poetry clubs...

 

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Its dope but sounds more like spoken word to me, there were loads this in night clubs and poetry clubs...

Yeah but how many of those spoken word poets made an album?

Anyway, check out these songs, What Is A Man and A Pimp

 

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According to the Youtube page, The Watts Prophets were the first "Rap" artists to publish the word "Rappin".


The Watts Prophets poets and World's longest performing "Rap" group from Watts, Los Angeles, California, were the first Rap artist to publish the common law trademark word "Rappin™" on an album, establishing the global title of the new American art form called "Rap". Anthony 'Amde' Hamilton, a true Father of Rap music was taught by prominent spiritual masters of both Ethiopia and Egypt, is the third American to be ordained as a priest of the ancient 2000-year-old Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Amde founded the first Ethiopian Orthodox Church in California, St. Takla Haymanot. In the late 1980's Amde was invited to Egypt by poet Pope Shenouda III the 117th Coptic Pope of Alexandria & Patriarch of the See of St. Mark to reside at his home in the ancient Egyptian monastery, Amde baptized the great singer Nina Simone and can be seen performing a spoken-word piece at the 1981 funeral service of Bob Marley (Baptized Ethiopian Orthodox) in Jamaica in the 1982 film 'Land of Look Behind'.