RAP NO FURTHER A MYSTERY

within an open and frank manner".[23] It is these meanings from which the musical form of rapping derives, and this definition could be from the shortening of repartee.[24] A rapper refers to a performer who "raps". By the late 1960s, when Hubert G. Brown changed his identify to H. Rap Brown, rap was a slang term referring to an oration or speech,