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most believe the first rap song to be "Rapper's Delight" by the sugarhill gang

or "the message " by grandmaster flash and the furious five

However, Rapper's Delight was merely the first rap song to enter the Billboard Top 40. A claim can be made that The Last Poets were the first rap group, and their 1970 piece, "New York, New York" was influential in the subject matter of rap music, as it dealt with the stress of growing up poor and black in New York City during the late 1960s. The background of the piece is a simple hand drum with a repeating chant, "New York, New York, the big out" while the words are spoken in a style that combines the beat poetry of the 1950s and charismatic black church preaching.

James Brown's heavy funk beats would soon enter the rap/hip-hop scene. Brown frequently didn't sing his lyrics, but would shout them rhythmically, as in "The Big Payback." As such, some consider him to be an early proto-rap artist.

The first rap song to hit the top 5 in Billboard was the collaboration between Run-DMC and Aerosmith, "Walk This Way."

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