Nope. They came long before rap. And their origins are G&S patter songs and Noel
Coward.
And they too are rap.
Rap is not new. It is ancient.
One of many online sources tells us:
"Rap's origins stretch far back to African oral tradition; it has a more immediate
predecessor in the spoken-word expressionism of 60s activists like the Last Poets, or
LeRoi Jones (later known as Amiri Baraka), who performed activist poetry over the New York
Art Ensemble's free jazz. But it was in the early 70s, in New York's inner-city
neighborhoods in the Bronx and Brooklyn, that mcs began rapping spoken rhymes about street
life to the beat of dj-manipulated drum machines and turntables. Break dancers and
graffiti artists provided a dramatic and colorful visual style to accompany the beats and
narratives, and a subculture was born. In 1979, rap had its first hit single in Sugarhill
Gang's "Rapper's Delight,"..."
And WS Gilbert and Noel Coward were influenced by that?
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