Ray Charles - "Rap is not music"

@northman Gotcha. Don’t know that LP.  
But, yeah, no, he’s nowhere near the first rapper.

@tylermunns, I hear you and love your list! That's some history you're putting out there....

Rap is officially a 50 year old genre of music. There is bad rap and amazing rap. There is bad rock and amazing rock. This is dumb. 

@taisoul Well said.

Perhaps. But what percentage of people actually listened to SOUL music back in the days of Motown and Philadelphia Soul back in the day? A very small percentage I’d imagine. So why hide behind Ray Charles words when you didn’t listen to soul when you had the chance?

I still listen to soul from the 60’s and 70’s. I doubt many here do.