{"id":207,"date":"2015-04-30T20:54:06","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T01:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeyhand.com\/blog\/?p=207"},"modified":"2020-12-29T15:39:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T20:39:36","slug":"devil-went-down-to-georgia-first-rap-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeyhand.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/30\/devil-went-down-to-georgia-first-rap-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Devil Went Down to Georgia: First Rap Song?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first rap song I can remember is &#8220;Rapper&#8217;s Delight&#8221; from 1979, which <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rapper%27s_Delight\">Wikipedia<\/a> and Google mostly agree with. However, after listening again to &#8220;The Devil Went Down to Georgia&#8221; and checking <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Devil_Went_Down_to_Georgia\">Wikipedia again<\/a>, I think it might have a good claim on the title of first (popular) rap song:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was released May 21, 1979. &#8220;Rapper&#8217;s Delight&#8221; was not released for almost another four months, on September 16, 1979.<\/li>\n<li>Charlie Daniels is speaking more that singing&#8211;could be rapping.<\/li>\n<li>It features sampling&#8211;&#8220;Fire on the Mountain&#8221;, &#8220;Granny, Does Your Dog Bite?&#8221;, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Most tellingly, it has cursing on the album version that is not heard in the radio-edit version:<br \/>\n&#8230; I done told you once you son of a [gun] \/\u00a0I&#8217;m the best there&#8217;s ever been &#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first rap song I can remember is &#8220;Rapper&#8217;s Delight&#8221; from 1979, which Wikipedia and Google mostly agree with. However, after listening again to &#8220;The Devil Went Down to Georgia&#8221; and checking Wikipedia again, I think it might have a good claim on the title of first (popular) rap song: It was released May 21, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-song-titles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeyhand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeyhand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeyhand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeyhand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeyhand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeyhand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeyhand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeyhand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeyhand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeyhand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}