alt Hacker NewsThe very first rap/hip-hop song, Rapper's Delight is itself ... inspired by previous a song or two.
But that's ok, since they absolutely added improvements.
The very first rap/hip-hop song, Rapper's Delight is itself ... inspired by previous a song or two.
But that's ok, since they absolutely added improvements.
The 'haha! ha!' from Genesis's 'Mama' is quite literally taken out of 'The Message' by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five (the first rap hit song): I just think it's neat Genesis were listening to that. They don't seem like they'd be listening to rap and yet it's well documented in their own words that they'd not only heard it, but were that into it that they kept sticking that riff in 'Mama' and it stuck.