Who was the first MC to heavily use adlibs

i dont think anyone in the 80s was doing it minus maybe Run DMC and it was more of a chant they were doing but still an adlib ... which if you think about it alot of hip hop artist were doing that especially the early 80s ... you maybe can even look @ Flavor Flav being an adliber slash hypeman ...

but back then dudes were barely even doubling up thier vocals let alone doing adlibs ....

mainly cause dudes back then could literally rap .... you would find artist going accapella in the street only being assisted by a beat box .....

but you def gotta admit the adlibs are def something that came later especially when your thinking about the best part of the song ... from what i rememer artist like young jeezy were most known for his adlibs

it just added to what dudes were already doing ... back in the 80s it was used more as a mechanism to create excitement or hype .... guys like young jeezy and jim jones used it to give themselves more character on the track or to advance or further speak on what the last bar or following bar may speak about ....

Honestly it's a good damn question.

My gut feeling is M.O.P
They were the first I ever heard doing.

It's so hard to find music from there first album. But if you can listen to it. Dope album, came out in 93.

Mc Eith or Melle Mel.

yellowtapesport wrote: »

Nosign on JB he was literally singing all his ? ..not adlibing

I guess by definition James Brown was ad lib master, but yea I think you are talking in the way that rappers do it. Background vocals pretty much

Auh. yessir. its your boy

Idk but Jeezy made it a staple.

The Recipe wrote: »

Idk but Jeezy made it a staple.

I would put Pastor Troy before Jeezy

I dont know who was the first but as far back as "Flava in ya ear" ? were recording separate tracks on top of their lead vocals with "ad-libs" or hype words.

My best guess though would be probably some hip hop groups were the first to do "ad-libs" as we know them, when one member would have been rappin and another may have been getting excited in the background.

Flava Flav probably the first recorded incidence, Diddy made the ? regular

dj pre-k wrote: »

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Yep that was my first reply. I doubt we could ever establish the "first" rapper, but P definitely brought it mainstream. So much so that you could identify him by the ad lib, even making a song about it because it came popular (Diddy and Flav were more or less doing hype me responses)