Ali The First Rapper?

By JAKE COYLE, AP Entertainment Writer
December 15, 2006

NEW YORK (AP) -- "Float like a butterfly/ Sting like a bee/ Your hands can't hit/ What your eyes can't see."

Muhammad Ali's rhymes, taunts, provocations and exclamations were an endlessly entertaining and insightful facet of his larger-than-life persona. As he once said, "I outwit them and then I outhit them."

Writing for ESPN -- which published the book with Taschen -- pop culture critic Chuck Klosterman pondered, "If true, this would mean that rap did not originate (as commonly believed) in the South Bronx during the `70s; it would mean that rap was invented in Kentucky during the `60s. Hmmmm Maybe


Ali was extremely conscious of his legacy -- he was, after all, "the greatest" and "shook up the world." And he wasn't ever concerned about his verbiage making it into poetry books.



where do you think the First Rappers started?
Rap has been around longer than the 70's and 60's.

What do you think...

Ms Ray