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What was the first rap song to hit no. 1?
As a genre, we like to think of rap and hip-hop as relatively new. In fact, most people point to a specific moment — a 1973 party in New York City featuring DJ Kool Herc — when hip-hop was born.
But the roots of rap go back much further than that. Spoken...