While the exact origins of hip-hop are debated, its modern popularity & political influence is traced to American black nationalist poetry of the late 60s -- and the first regarded rap group/collective being Harlem’s The Last Poets - Hey Now, 1971

While the exact origins of hip-hop are debated, its modern popularity & political influence is traced to American black nationalist poetry of the late 60s -- and the first regarded rap group/collective being Harlem’s The Last Poets - Hey Now, 1971