Epic fail

http://youtu.be/f3z_I92EW_k

In the 1970s an underground urban movement known as "hip hop" began to develop in the South Bronx area of New York City focusing on emceeing (or MCing), breakbeats, and house parties. Starting at the home of DJ Kool Herc at the high-rise apartment at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, the movement later spread across the entire borough. Rap developed both inside and outside of hip hop culture, and began in America in earnest with the street parties thrown in the Bronx neighborhood of New York in the 1970s by Kool Herc and others—Jamaican born DJ Clive "Kool Herc" Campbell is credited as being highly influential in the pioneering stage of hip hop music,[17] Herc created the blueprint for hip hop music and culture by building upon the Jamaican tradition of impromptu toasting, boastful poetry and speech over music.[

dancehall is a sparse form of reggae that started around 1980. It's a kind of spoken word over a backing track, or proto-rap if you accept EEI's take on things, which does makes sense.

In the 80s only it turned to electro riddims instead of dub versions. Sleng teng, innit.

http://youtu.be/06AnpzLPDaA

http://youtu.be/FB-EJndbWfk