The coordinate surfaces of the Cartesian coordinates (x, y, z). The z-axis is vertical and the x-axis is highlighted in green. Thus, the red plane shows the points with x = 1, the blue plane shows the points with z = 1, and the yellow plane shows the points with y = â1.
Generally speaking, rap was started in the Bronx, New York in the 1970âs. Because of personal recollections and the myth-making aspect of hip hop, itâs hard to isolate the exact time and place where rap started or who exactly should be considered the inventor of rap.
Rapper's Delight, released in November 1979, was a serious push to get a rap record into the mainstream, and it worked, cracking the US Top 40 in January 1980 and becoming a seminal song in hip-hop history. The winning formula was boastful lyrics over a sampled beat - a technique that became ubiquitous in rap.