Before there was Def Jam there was Ghetto Jam

Rap is nothing new it's always been part of the African American experience. I can remember as a young girl in the mid 1960's sitting outside our building on those concrete toys a group of us making up raps. " My name is captain Sinbad "bodeep(choral)" I sail the seven seas! "Bodeep" and knows the secret "bodeep" opensesame! "bodeep bam bam bodeep" and then we would proceedwith our rhyme it would go around until everyone had a turn making up their rhymes until we got tired or some was called up stairs.