Why do people call Hip Hop “black music”?
Rap music derives from traditional Celtic music. Modern rap battles, for instance, bear a striking resemblance to the Limerick Game, a traditional Gaelic drinking game in which people compete for notoriety by making up insulting limericks about each other, the loser having to buy the next round of drinks. Likewise, puirt a beul, a form of Scottish mouth music was incorporated into Appalachian music and is an early ancestor of modern mouth percussion, or beatboxing.
Also, Europeans have been reciting poems to a beat since ancient times, there’s nothing African about it at all. All hip hop is, is urban Celtic music, simple as that. Why can’t blacks accept that?
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