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SBTVC
• 05.24.11 10:00 am 
Released in 1968, Pigmeat Markham’s “Here Come the Judge” is the first rap song EVER, according to the infallible internets.
Released in 1968, Pigmeat Markham’s “Here Come the Judge” is the first rap song EVER, according to the infallible internets. Apparently it’s a comedy routine set to music, which makes sense because it sounds exactly like Family Guy making fun of Will Smith.
Hat tip: @GenerationLoss
Order in the court!
The Judge ate some beans.
He sat on the toilet
and launched a submarine.
Woooo-eeeee! This was from back in the days when black peoples was happy and a smilin’ and no threat to no body.
He coulda been the first tv judge too.
Old news!
You guy’s jackin’ shit from Cracked now? This is sad.
wowch
Pigmeat,eh? Is this because he’s packing a large hog?
Naw dudes — Dr. Seuss Whooped him by 3 years. Fox in Socks, released on RCA in 1965.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQnMd0eQvHg
[...] I shit you not, I used to sing this song to my parents so I could annoy them (via an episode of Roseanne). Now it’s being heralded as the first rap song ever. [...]
I have this old shaw brothers movie on VCD from the 60s with a kid rapping in chinese.
AH! It makes so much sense now. My entire childhood, my sister or I would sing “Here comes the judge, here comes the judge…” when my mother was coming after one of us after we got in trouble. She must’ve played this for us or sang it at some point when we were very young…
Mystery solved! Thanks SC.
the first rap song recorded was ‘Kinesiska Muren’ recorded by Evert Taube in the 1920′s
http://youtu.be/QrgzNI98r78