What is considered to be the first rap group?

worksafe

The Last Poets, late sixties... What is now called rap has been around for a long time, I just listen to rap by locals on the street corners in south Chicago in the early sixties, maybe it was called somthing else (I can't remenber), but is the same music form. The Last Poets had several albums released with their debut (1970) album reaching top 10. Waning in popularity during the seventies, and resurging in the eighties with the rise of rap, the Last Poets are considered to be the grandfathers and founders of this music form. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Poets Apr 03 07, 1:57 PM

What-A-Mess

The first largely popular hit song containing rapping was Blondie's "Rapture". http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/blondie/rapture.html This song preceded the huge hit, "Rappers Delight" by the Sugarhill Gang, the first true commercial rap hit (1979). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapper's_Delight Apr 03 07, 2:50 PM

What-A-Mess

Well.......Wiki swears that I am wrong! "Rapture" wasn't the first song involving rap to be successful; the Sugarhill Gang's 1979 hit "Rapper's Delight" reached the top 40 on the U.S. Hot 100 chart, and Kurtis Blow's track "The Breaks" was the first certified gold rap single in 1980. The lyrics of "Rapture" were tame, even playfully nonsensical, including the names of hip-hop pioneers Fab 5 Freddy and Grandmaster Flash (Freddy and graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat made cameo appearances in the music video, one of the first broadcast on MTV). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapture_(song) Apr 03 07, 8:41 PM