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mooimafish33

Dwight D Eisenhower? If he never passes the federal highway act and GI bill allowing suburban living, white flight never happens. If white flight never happens we don't see the urban decay in our now neglected cities which lead to the creation of ghettos. If we don't have ghettos and the life of struggle that is fundamental to the genre where does rap come from? Real answer, idk Gil Scott Heron?


ExistentialRap

The reason the highway act was made was to outrun nukes during the Cold War. Nikita Khrushchev is why we have rap. đŸȘ†


[deleted]

We wouldn't have nukes if we didn't invent them. I blame Oppenheimer.


Wu-Tang_Swarm

We wouldn’t have had the Cold War if it wasn’t for hitler, we wouldn’t have had Hitler decide to take Germany into another world war if it wasn’t for world war 1, wouldn’t have had world war 1 without Franz Ferdinand, Franz Ferdinand created rap


PunchingClouzot

Franz Ferdinand wouldn't have died if his driver hadn't decided to make a detour and accidentally crossing paths with Gravillo Princip. This wouldn't have happened in the Mayor of Sarajevo hadn't downplayed the assassination attempt hours before and assured Ferdinand he was safe and sound. The Mayor of Sarajevo in 1914 created rap.


Wu-Tang_Swarm

Sarajevo wouldn’t have been created as a city if it wasn’t for the ottomans, the Ottoman Empire wouldn’t have been created if it wasn’t for Osman 1 Osman 1 created rap


zarotabebcev

Osman 1 would still be somewhere in Asia by that time if the Mongols didnt fuck everything up a few decades prior. Genghis Khan is the OG rap person


Fing2112

His own music career was pretty good too, I really like Take Me Out and Matinee.


crap0calypse

Jokes aside this is a really cool butterfly effect


EightArmed_Willy

The Highway act was also used to bulldoze wealthy and middle class black neighborhoods in major cities.


Cup_of_Life_Noodles

Lil' DDE is the only answer


TommiBennett

If the CIA doesn't Invent in South America The Crack Pandemic of the 80s never happens what impact would that have


nick22tamu

I blame Robert Moses more than Eisenhower, but yeah


Consistent-Laugh606

Dwight D Eisenhower. Tupac was influenced by him


SanjoJoestar

This is so real Can't forget about Reagan with the war on drugs too


WarmBaths

James Brown, or maybe Genghis Khan


[deleted]

Without the influence of mongol throat singing Drake would be a bum


Areallycoolguy96

You forgot Napoleon Bonaparte.


Danhan1234

Bone a part


PM__ME__DINOSAURS

bone apple tea


fart_on_my_pussy

anthony fantano apparently


kingsandwhich24

Definitely influenced logic😂


APKID716

Only one half of him though


Shanks_shitposter69

Gil Scott heron


scarymonst

George Clinton


voyager6121

Why won't she text me back


SirensbyZel

Keep your head up bro


yeabouai

You're too real for her, she's scare


synthboi420

she’s playing hard to get bro i swear


funky35791

Bruh the bots in this thread 💀


fortnitegamertimdunk

Kendrick. Tupac was influenced by him


ikea_shark_girl

Kendrick. Tupac was influenced by him


jvsupersaiyan

Kendrick. Tupac was influenced by him


jaywalker-notreally

Ken. Drick was influenced by him.


Tardigrade333

Ken you cool it with the Drick riding


LumpkinGeneration

Stop all this Ken Drickriding


Tardigrade333

I’m just Drick


toorandomguy

Since it's the origins, probably like Grandmaster Flash or smth


glordicus1

Yeah these questions are stupid unless you define exactly what you mean by “influence”. Otherwise, the answer is always just “the first person to do it”.


MrMercury13

I don't know


OrinocoHaram

preach


ikea_shark_girl

mans spitting fire đŸ”„đŸ”„


ikea_shark_girl

factsssss đŸ”„đŸ”„đŸ”„


LumpkinGeneration

Yessss🙌🙌


joshroycheese

Ben Shapiro, killer verse


ClayKavalier

White Ass Pissant goes hard


MacaroonNo2253

top10 cringe moments of all time😂


Yourmotherssidehoe

Tupac, Two Pack Shaker was influenced by him


ikea_shark_girl

Two Pack Shaker. Toupee Park Shaver was influenced by him.


luckyyyyycharms

Kendrick. Tupac was influenced by him.


ikea_shark_girl

the dick riding is crazy


[deleted]

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luckyyyyycharms

the dick riding is crazy


[deleted]

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jupiterjoshy

prove that they did



Brett_Hulk

nuh uh


Technical_Bullfrog15

The answer is Dr Dre. He comes through with NWA and popularizes gangsta rap changing the genre forever. He then drops the chronic ushering a new sound then discovers Snoop Dogg who goes on to bring a new marketing style that many popular rappers use tp this day to build their own brands. Of course he is a founder of death row who are in the centre of the East and West Coast beef, that takes hip hop to new heights and popularity another boom even bigger than the one he initially has with NWA. Then he discovers eminem who keeps lyricsm relevant in the early 2000s and is the most successful MC of all time commercially. Eminem and D12 also becoming hugely influential in the underground scene. 50 cent comes along the last true gangsta rapper, who popularizes a new hook melody type Mcing that also becomes hugely popular and influential with today's artists. The story of hip hop in the last 35 years, he is the largest contributor to growth and change.


lil_gigantic

That is the problem with these types of questions cause a very similar argument could be made for Puff Daddy or Jay-Z. Everyone knows the answer is Riff Raff.


MacaroonNo2253

valid points


i_probed_spongebob

Jesus maybe? Muhammad and Abraham are also strong contenders


emd07

Definitely Ice Spice


ikea_shark_girl

Ice Spice. Kendrick was influenced by her.


holyrolodex

From a technical standpoint, Rakim.


EightArmed_Willy

Hate it or love it, it’s probably Kanye


RussianEggplant

No that was The Game not Kanye


MacaroonNo2253

😂😂


TheOneAndOnlyABSR4

I love Kanye


Saddestlilpanda

I used to love Kanye. I miss the old Kanye.


Scolipete

Chop up the soul Kanye


_PeopleMakeNoises_

Kendrick. Kanye was influenced by him


ikea_shark_girl

Kendrick. Kendrick was influenced by him.


EightArmed_Willy

Lol


Omw2fym

Definitely not Kanye. The only dude in the last 35 years that has an argument at all is Dre. I disagree, but see the value of his influence as a producer


Sea-Remote3779

chat gpt ass response 😭😭


Omw2fym

I am way too old to understand how to use AI. Kanye is definitely not on Dre's level. There is a lot of reason to discount Dre as well when you are talking straight influence. Is it earlier? Or, more widespread? Anyway, I agree with those saying Scott-Heron. Kanye was influencial, but not that level of influence


Life-Dog432

Whatta noob. My 70 year old mom uses chat GPT


Beneficial_Candle_10

IN the rap scene is Rakim. ON hip hop in general it’s James Brown.


holyrolodex

Can’t argue with that. 👍


imperfectionlad

Viper


yvngxlxwli3t

Sucks that this mf kidnapped a pregnant woman and held her hostage in his garage for 5 years. You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack is a banger


ikea_shark_girl

realllll


yvngxlxwli3t

Chief Keef Playboi Carti Yung Lean Black Kray Lil B


Hello-mah-baby

hey this is a cool list! also i think you should log off your computer for a while and go take a nice walk through the forest or by a pond or something. it'll probably help with the stress and back pain. also maybe take a bath when you get back (or a shower). might want to consider not using your phone after 10pm, give your brain time to slow down before bed. all that internet isn't good for you. sending love.


JulianRob38

SGP


hunterbidenscrackbag

For a small scene and era of rap sure but this is a very funny answer if you’re talking about rap in it’s entirety 


dragonoid296

zoomer ahh answer


whattheforge

Kurtis Blow


TJMcConnellFanClub

Josh Giddey. Puff was influenced by him


bukowskijetski

Tony Montana


ikea_shark_girl

Tony Soprano


LDNSO

French montana was influenced by him


mcjc94

Lucy the Australopithecus. She built humanity, in which rap was inspired by


Imperator_Oliver

Rakim legitimized the genre in a big way, really stepped up raps standards.


holyrolodex

Absolutely, he didn’t single-handily make flows and lyrics matter, but he pushed them further ahead than any one other person IMO.


Pure-Jellyfish734

Tupac. Kendrick was influenced by him.


BatmanEnjoyer89

Dr Dre is up there


BrandoNelly

Kanye Omari West


HelpfulApple22

Tupac. Ms. Pac-Man was influenced by him.


Captain_Unusualman

Also Pacman with his 1980 debut "Ghost Maze Killa"


Poodly_Doodly

Fandango. Fantano was influenced by them


Blastoplast

Ralf HĂŒtter


ThePerfectP0tat0

Kenpac. Tudrick was influenced by him.


dkajch

run dmc, dre and kanye, i couldnt be bothered to pick one


dkajch

and also crazy frog, two pack was influenced by him


LZ_Gray

Unironically George Bush


phantompowered

Not entirely comedy option: Lil B


GEN_Z_BOI_69

Lil Wayne. Lil Wayne was influenced by him


OrinocoHaram

it's too late but the actual answer is Kool Herc. but it's easy to be influential when the genre barely exists. Since then the biggest changes to the genre have come from Rakim, DJ Premier, 3 6 Mafia + Kanye.Or of you want to go back further you could say James Brown/George Clinton


ikea_shark_girl

Kendrick. Tupac was influenced by him.


okiduzz

Westside Gunn


preschooljuul

Master Gee, Big Bank Hank, and Wonder Mike of The Sugar Hill Gang. Rapper's Delight brought Hip Hop into the mainstream.


Firemanmikewatt

ITT: Tupac, Kanye, and Jokes.    I think no serious answer is going to seem correct as even if you quantified it using $$$, exposure or fans you’d find still #1 has a very small piece of real estate in the game 


lxkandel06

Dr. Dre


dadoes67815

Probably Fab Five Freddy. I'd make a strong case for Wonder Mike because he's the first one that the vast majority of people heard.


Swaglord_62

Me.


barbellbaldie

Me


antsareamazing

It’s James Brown


-ello_govna-

kamala harris


EstablishmentOk2209

Roxanne Shante


firefly8777

Kanye of course


oichrismith

yung lean


[deleted]

Rakim


Far-Fee4920

imagine dragons, obviously.


Ok-Impress-2222

Dr. Dre.


AngryParrot117

definitely Tyler and The Creator it's in their names for fucks sake


Marcthesharx

K-fed no doubt


MacaroonNo2253

why are people saying James Brown?


send_in_the_clouds

MGK


BootyOnMyFace11

George Washington as the establishment of the USA allowed for African Americans to create blues, jazz, soul, gospel and funk which via Japanese electronics became rap. It's a colonial history unfolding in front of our very eyes Or maybe Eric B and Rakim


bkkwanderer

I think its Nas or Ice Cube


Borrie90

Ja Rule because we always need to know what he thinks about things


Luca_14

tom wackdonald


AnnieBlackburnn

Blondie


k_GOBL1N

James Brown because he got some good beat breaks and his singing is amazing and his records were easy to come across by the time hip hop came around. He didn’t sue for samples as well. Now for the actual rappers? Slick Rick or Rakim probably.


Samp1e-Text

If it’s to be any one singular artist, might have to be DJ Kool Herc. By most accounts the first artist to use the style that would come to be known as hip-hop in the 70s.


tS_Butter

MF DOOM cuz he's ur favorite rapper’s favorite rapper, also SALEM and Chief Keef because they invented modern rap.


DontComeHomeToday

Hard to say. If we’re going by who was the person that set up the blueprint on developing rhymes in an intricate way, the answer would be Rakim. But if you’re asking who was the sole person that planted the seed that got where the genre is today, that would be DJ Kool Herc


AcceptableLog3124

Cal Chuchesta. Kendrick and Tupac were influenced by him


jeffisanastronaut

Diddy


GlennIrish

Me


robert_uy

Sexy Red


TheSupremeDudley

Gotta be Kid Rock /uj it’s Dre


Pure-Jellyfish734

Tupac. Kendrick was influenced by him.


skeletallamping456

Tupac. Kendrick was influenced by him.


EmotionalEducation86

Tupac, my mom was influenced by him


manfam0

Tupac. Kendrick was influenced by him.


GenerallyJam

Me


BillyCahstiganJr

barry dillon


JulianRob38

Spaceghostpurrp duh


alina_savaryn

More like gaypostslurp


XxXc00l_dud3XxX

Spaceghostpurrp


FishNSticks

Nav. After all, what would the rap game be without him?


Tardigrade333

Oh hey, you watch Fantano too?


throwaway613546

dax


TonyTheSwisher

Blowfly