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Blues music, rooted in the work songs and spirituals of slavery and influenced greatly by West African musical traditions, was first played by blacks, and later by some whites, in the Mississippi Delta region of the United States around the time of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Grammy-winning blues musician / historian Elijah Wald and others have argued that the blues were being rapped as early as the 1920s.
Wald went so far as to call hip hop " the living blues.
" Jazz, which developed from the blues and other African-American and European musical traditions and originated around the beginning of the 20th century, has also influenced hip hop and has been cited as a precursor of hip hop.
Not just jazz music and lyrics but also Jazz poetry.
According to John Sobol, the jazz musician and poet who wrote Digitopia Blues, rap " bears a striking resemblance to the evolution of jazz both stylistically and formally.

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