Some call her the godmother of hip-hop.
When Nikki Giovanni recorded "Truth Is On Its Way" with the New York Community Choir in 1971, there was no such thing as performing the spoken word to music. The vinyl album was so acclaimed, Giovanni says, "People asked me all the time, ‘Where’s your Grammy, Nikki?’ But it was so new they didn’t have a category for it."
Thirty-five years later, hip-hop is one of the most popular genres among young folks, both ...
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