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rap originated from west Africa,the used to tell stories over beat...a drummer beats the drum and the story teller tells the story in rythemic fashion...but the first artist to release a record of rap was Gyedu Blay Ambolley from Ghana in 1973 before sugarhill gang released theirs in 1979

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