I am not sure about the gangsta crap but rap if we go by the definition of talking to music was invented by Hank Williams Sr. The album was called Luke the Drifter. Lots of other people used this type of thing C.W. Mccall for instance or Whispering Bill Anderson on the Grand Ole Opry. White folks invented it I guess if poetry to music is that new and not something done by the ancient bards. As usual they have taken something nice and made it shiny,tacky and ugly. Have you seen what they do to classic cars? Have you noticed that they are the only people who have purple houses with orange or maroon trim? They still haven't invented anything only used the genius of the white man and turned it into something ugly. Oh White country singers have been rapping for a long long time. I was just watching the old Jimmy Stewart western movie Bend of the River a while back(great movie), and they were at a party and they were playing old fiddle music/square dance music and the guy was rapping, no other word for it. They would do that all the time, start talking out the lyrics really fast sort of like an auctioneer does. Then later on the Country-Western singers would always do it to, you're right. And poetry to music is nothing new, you're right again good point. White people have been putting poetry to music since probably ancient Rome and Greece. I'm sure other races other than White Europeans have done this for a long time too, like in Asia, maybe even Africa. The concept of reciting poetry to music is nothing new.