rap has origins in Scotland

clipped from www.telegraph.co.uk Professor argued that so-called rap battles, where two or more performers trade elaborate insults, derive from the ancient Caledonian art of "flyting". Scottish slave owners took the tradition with them to the United States, where it was adopted and developed by slaves, emerging many years later as rap. a clear link between this tradition for settling scores in Scotland and rap battles, which were famously portrayed in Eminem's 2002 movie 8 Mile.