This consisted of quick vocal deliveries more like speech than singing (Berman 140). Another link from African music to Rap is in the sounds that are used. It is said that "Grand Wizard" invented "scratching" while practicing at home (Greenberg 15), however Andrei Strobert, a Brooklyn-based scholar, musician and artist was quoted in an article by Harry Allen about the roots of rap music, "The scratch that you hear in hip-hop is similar to the African sekere"...
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She goes on to explain, "A sekere is a big gourd with beads around it". She also noted that many of the sounds rappers use in her studio are from the Imo tribe of Nigeria (80). There are many comparisons between rap and African music but one comparison you don't hear about too often is the influence by Puerto Ricans living in New York at the time rap started popping up...
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