The Last Poets were poets, not rappers. Is Rumi a godfather of Rap? Hip-Hop, as we know it, came together in the Bx. But the ingredients that created it were imported. If I get oranges from Florida and make a glass of fresh squeezed orange juice out of them in Cali, where did the orange juice come from? Florida or California? Answer: California. Hence, Hip-Hop was 'created in the Bx, but many of the main ingredients were imported from Jamaica and the South.
