I've always considered rap to be White music, but hip-hop culture to be Black. Rap is basically a poem spoken over a beat, which is derived from Europe. Shakespeare's use of iambic pentameter is a good example of this. The concept of reciting poetry to music or to a beat is ancient, all of the ancient civilizations did that, so in a way you're right this thing we call rap nowadays really isn't very uniquely Black at all(is anything?:D). And many of the beats they use are sampled aka stolen from old rock songs and trance/techno/electronic music made by Whites.....they utilize the breakbeat which was an invention of Whites... I think a sort of pro White rap with more trance sounding beats rather than primitive, jungle sounding boom boom boom yo yo yo may be a very useful tool for us in this day and age.....When you think about it...hm...