Did Johnny Cash basically invent rap?

You could possibly call it rap. But then if you could then you'd have to call this rap too. This is No Trouble Every Day recorded by Frank Zappa in 1966, thee years before Sue. But then I'm sure someone can come up with something that sounds like rap but is even older. read more

If those pieces are considered a form of rap, then Johnny Cash certainly didn’t invent it. read more

Mark is on the right path in that the origins of rap music are old, but they are even older than talking blues, and bound up in the spoken word traditions of Africa, and of the slave trade. These traditions were passed down through black communities, passing through the civil rights movement, a time of fast talking, political oration. read more