TRAMP RECORDS: Ancestors Of Rap (2012)

Boom-bap original rap, it came from the funk and that’s a cold, hard fact – and here’s 16 excellent reasons why as Tramp Records’ bossman Tobias Kirmayer finds another excuse to share the findings of his funky beat-mining with the public on Ancestors Of Rap. Not that he needs an excuse of course, the man’s a terminal funk-fiend, but this compilation has an interesting raison d’etre. It is, of course, basic music history knowledge that hip-hop’s foundations have been firmly cemented in funk since the beginning when Kool Herc