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Difficult question to answer, because it depends on your definition of rap. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised by Scott Heron was a spoken word over a beat from 1970. Socially minded free speak over music, sounds like rap to me. Rapper’s Delight is generally referenced as it was the first “rap” because it was commercially successful and charted.
