I don't know if I'll look up that rap version of Talking Union that Mark provided links to, but Corey Harris is friggin' great. Apparently he's branching into rap, because I've only heard him do more blues and traditional sounding stuff. I think similarities of rap to some European folk are one of those coincidental things, like how Persian kilims look like Navaho designs--my sister followed African performance art up into early rap, and claims that the slang "cool" goes back to a eighteenth century Frenchman's description of the attitudes of Yoruba dancers.

I still don't think it's a big deal if the post was deleted, or wasn't. It's just a filing thing, basically. I doubt many people here know much rap, and there are many better places to get Rap info, I'm sure.

   But I still remember the Christmas my mom picked up my gift to her, and shook it saying I wonder what this could be? Mom, it was The Last Supper on an etch-a-sketch.