Rapping (or rhyming, spitting, emceeing, MCing) is a musical form of vocal delivery that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular", which is performed or chanted in a variety of ways, usually over a backing beat or musical accompaniment.
Rapping originated from Africa centuries before hip hop music was even invented. In west Africa, there were people who would tell their story but rhythmically over the drums and sparse: instrumentation. A notable rap song that was recorded is the 1950 song “Gotta Let You Go” by Joe Hill Louis.
The reason rap is called is that in late 1960 there was a rapper who called himself Hubert G. Brown but then changed it to H. Rap Brown. It is a word of slang the meaning of the slang is speech or oration but they didn’t call it rap until a decade later.
The first known female rap artist is Sha-Rock she was born in 1962 during her rapping career she was called the Mother of the mic. Since she was considered the first female rapper before she became a rapper she first started breaking dancing then a few years later is when she started to rap and make music.
