Ray Charles - "Rap is not music"

@tylermunns, I'm not joking about Lou Reed at all, but he probably was. He did a song called "The Original Wrapper" (sic) on his 1986 album Mistrial. I love Lou but that album wasn't his finest hour.

@northman Gotcha. Don’t know that LP.  
But, yeah, no, he’s nowhere near the first rapper.

@tylermunns, I hear you and love your list! That's some history you're putting out there....

Rap is officially a 50 year old genre of music. There is bad rap and amazing rap. There is bad rock and amazing rock. This is dumb. 

@taisoul Well said.