Rap: References & Edit History

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Type Description Contributor Date
Article thoroughly revised. Oct 21, 2026
Modified link of Web site: National Public Radio - The Birth of Rap : A Look Back. Aug 11, 2026
Add new Web site: CORE - Rap the Language (PDF). Aug 08, 2025
Add new Web site: University of Michigan - Program for Research on Black Americans - Rap Music and Rap Audiences: Controversial Themes, Psychological Effects and Political Resistance (PDF). May 15, 2025
Add new Web site: Pennsylvania State University - CiteSeerX - Social Context and Musical Content of Rap Music, 1979-1995 (PDF). Mar 21, 2025
Add new Web site: National Public Radio - The Birth of Rap : A Look Back. Nov 09, 2023
Links and photo added. Mar 07, 2023
Add new Web site: Carnegiee Hall - Timeline of African American Music - History of Rap & Hip-Hop. Feb 10, 2023
Add new Web site: Free Speech Center at Middle Tennessee State University - Rap Music and the First Amendment. Dec 29, 2022
Add new Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - Rap. Nov 18, 2022
Corrected display issue. Feb 14, 2020
Add new Web site: African American Registry - Rap. Dec 20, 2017
Add new Web site: BlackPast - Rap/Hip Hop. Dec 20, 2017
Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - Rap Music. Sep 16, 2014
Add new Web site: AllMusic - Rap. May 14, 2013
Add new Web site: ThinkQuest - Rap. Aug 19, 2011
New article added. Apr 23, 2009
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