We got to understand rap been
Here for a long time'!
When God talked to the prophets
He was rappin
And when the prophets talked back to God
They was rappin
And then if people wanna bring it up and get
All up to the modern days and ages
We can start to goin in the
60's when you had Shirley Ellis
When she did "The Name Game"
And "The Clapping Song"
We can go to the poetry rappin
Of of sister Son sonia Sanchez
With uh The Watts Poets, or The Last Poets
We can get into the political
Or the message rap
Of The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan
Malcolm X or The Honorable Elijah Muhammad
We can get into the the the
The party and fun raps
Of Pigby Markam?, Marks Baby?
We can go back to the "Hi De
Hi De Ho" with Cab Calloway
We can go back to the
Radio disc jockey or jocko
Eddie OJ, and all the others that did things
We can go back to the
LOVE RAP of Isaac Hayes, black Moses
To the LOVE RAP of Barry White out there
This is all part of rap
And if all you country people want to
Get into the country & western thing
We can take it to, Tony Joe White
When he did "Poke Salad Annie"
This is all dealin with the rap
Rap has always been there

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Writer(s): ANDREW EDWIN WHITE, ASHLEY IAN OLIVER, Berent Moe, GREGORY MICHAEL DAY, JACK ALAN FAIRBROTHER, JAMES WILLIAM THOMAS, Kristal Oliver, Kristofer T Murray