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Topic subjectfrom 1928:
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2918113, from 1928:
Posted by lonesome_d, Mon Jan-26-15 10:15 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIPQ35Kg3-A


which borrows its first line (and borrows, but exaggerates the flow) from this one from 1926:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPrnbGm7jas


but perhaps the most rappity rap of all these early ones is probably Emmett Miller's blackface number The Gypsy from 1936 (the modern-style flow follows the dozens-style intro, comes in at 1:33):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myBiO44B778