V/a / Early Rappers

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US 0412
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Street Date:
September 6th, 2011
Ship Date:
September 5th, 2011
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US 0412 CD
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Street Date:
September 6th, 2011
Ship Date:
September 5th, 2011

"No matter how far it (hip hop) penetrates into... Japanese video games and cool European electronics“, hip hop author David Toop explains, "its roots are still the deepest in all Afro-American music“. The compilation Early Rappers features more than one and a half dozen of these early pioneers. Their rhetoric inventiveness, their word skills and esprit fuels what hip hop has become today! Features tracks from JOE TEX, LIGHTNIN’ SLIM, BLANCHE THOMAS, CAB CALLOWAY, LAST POETS, BO DIDDLEY, CHUCK BERRY, FRED WESELY & THE NEW J.B.s, ANDRE WILLIAMS, U-ROY, and others.