The Liquid Kosmos

The Origin of Rap

Posted in cooperation with The Matriculators and is a work in progress...

Let's cut right to the chase... Is the origin of rap music, along with its attitude and cockiness, linked to hundreds of years of oppression?

OR... Is it linked to country music?

WHAT??????

Is rap music itself the original "ryhme biter?" Well, after my visit to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum today in Nashville, I think it would now be very difficult to disprove this.... Shall I begin with a few of the MANY examples I found seemingly around every corner?

1) Jimmie Rodgers, aka "The Father of Country Music" sang: "If you don't want me mama you sure don't have to stall, 'cause I can get more women than a passenger train can haul." (sound like any rappers you know?)

2) Endless pictures of Lester Raymond Flatt with his cowboy hat "pimped" to the side. (quite possibly a direct link...)

3) "Stringbean" from the blockbuster country music television show Hee Haw wearing his pants WAY below the equator. (coincidence?)

Based on this evidence, wouldn't it be more accurate if P-Diddy gave "mad props" to his boy and "OG" Jimmie Rodgers once in a while after bragging about how many bitches he can get? Can we actually say that rappers are being completely true to the game if they are only sending "shouts out" to their home boys, and not the TRUE Fathers of Rap?

True fathers of rap like Webb Pierce, who dialed-up cadillacs with guns as door handles and silver dollars glued to the dash board. Pierce had more weapons displayed on his car than 50 Cent could ever script into his videos and the "realness" of Webb was that he drove through town flaunting his "gangster" prowess in the face of every cop in Music City.

posted by The Oscillator @ 8:22 PM