Robin Kelly's approach traces back to and calls for "?go[ing] back to the blues, to the baaadman tales of the late nineteenth century, and to the age-old tradition of ?signifying' if we want to discover the roots of the ?gangsta' aesthetic of hip hop." He traces some of the early works to 1938 folklorist Alan Lomax and on to 1958 Lloyd Price's "classic black baaadman narrative, ?Stagger Lee'"...
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This theme is also evident in multiple other sources which trace rap's roots to African culture and tradition of utilizing and valuing the spoken word. Griots are, according to Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, "any of a class of musician-entertainers of western Africa whose performances include tribal histories and genealogies"...
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