The (Pre)History of HipHop 0: 1930-1978

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If you ask certain music scholars "What was the first hiphop song?" "Where did hip hop come from?"

This is an extensively researched selection of the answers you're likely to get.

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• The Last Poets — When The Revolution Comes
• Cab Calloway — Minnie The Moocher
• Louis Jordan — Saturday Night Fish Fry, Parts 1 & 2
• Bo Diddley — Say Man
• the watts prophets — Funny how things can change
• the watts prophets — Amerikkka
• Gil Scott-Heron — Whitey On the Moon
• Richard Pryor — Niggers Vs. The Police
• Cassius Clay — Round 1: I Am The Greatest
• Rudy Ray Moore — Flatland
• Gil Scott-Heron — The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
• Big Youth — Screaming Target
• U-Roy — Natty Rebel
• The Congos — Fisherman
• Lyn Collins — Think (About It)
• James Brown — Funky Drummer
• James Brown — Funky President (People It's Bad)
• The Honey Drippers — Impeach the President
• The Winstons — Amen Brother
• Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band — Apache
• Sly & The Family Stone — Sing A Simple Song
• Parliament — Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker)
• Herman Kelly & Life — Dance to the Drummer's Beat