Blues and hokum intertwined at least through the mid-1930s, when the hokum bands faded out. … Hokum was also absorbed into the jazz tradition.

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Drawing on the smooth and steady rap style of disco DJs, the proto-rap spiel of the Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron, various other American and African American oral traditions (including, as mentioned above, radio disc jockey practice) […]