Many people credit The Sugar Hill Gang and Sylvia Robinson with releasing the first rap record, however, others know that The Fat Back Band and Tim Williams actually released “King Tim III” a few months before “Rapper’s Delight.” Even fewer people know that The Golden Gate Quartet, a gospel group, released “The Preacher and The Bear” in 1937. This may have been the very first rap record. Check these out below.
Know your history and you might have a better grip on your future.
Here’s “King Tim III.”
Here’s “The Preacher and The Bear.”
