<P> With the decline of disco in the early 1980's rap became a new form of expression . Rap arose from musical experimentation with rhyming, rhythmic speech . Rap was a departure from disco . Sherley Anne Williams refers to the development of rap as "anti-Disco" in style and means of reproduction . The early productions of Rap after Disco sought a more simplified manner of producing the tracks they were to sing over . Williams explains how Rap composers and DJ's opposed the heavily orchestrated and ritzy multi-tracks of Disco for "break beats" which were created from compiling different records from numerous genres and did not require the equipment from professional recording studios . Professional studios were not necessary therefore opening the production of rap to the youth who as Williams explains felt "locked out" because of the capital needed to produce Disco records . </P> <P> More directly related to the African - American community were items like schoolyard chants and taunts, clapping games, jump - rope rhymes, some with unwritten folk histories going back hundreds of years across many nationalities . Sometimes these items contain racially offensive lyrics . A related area that is not strictly folklore is rhythmical cheering and cheerleading for military and sports . </P> <P> Art forms such as spoken word jazz poetry and comedy records had an influence on the first rappers . Coke La Rock, often credited as hip - hop's first MC cites the Last Poets among his influences, as well as comedians such as Wild Man Steve and Richard Pryor . Comedian Rudy Ray Moore released under the counter albums in the 1960s and 1970s such as This Pussy Belongs To Me (1970), which contained "raunchy, sexually explicit rhymes that often had to do with pimps, prostitutes, players, and hustlers", and which later led to him being called "The Godfather of Rap". </P> <P> Gil Scott - Heron, a jazz poet / musician, has been cited as an influence on rappers such as Chuck D and KRS - One . Scott - Heron himself was influenced by Melvin Van Peebles, whose first album was 1968's Brer Soul. Van Peebles describes his vocal style as "the old Southern style", which was influenced by singers he had heard growing up in South Chicago . Van Peebles also said that he was influenced by older forms of African - American music: "...people like Blind Lemon Jefferson and the field hollers . I was also influenced by spoken word song styles from Germany that I encountered when I lived in France ." </P>

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