Rapso

Rapso is a musical direction that has emerged in the 1970s from Calypso and Soca and North American rap in Trinidad and Tobago. As the inventor of Rapso - or Rapsody, as the direction was originally called - applies Lancelot Layne. Therefore, the origin of the word Rapso is not even, as is often claimed, in the compound of " rap " and " Soca " or " rap " and " Calypso", but is a simplification of the ( English ) word Rhapsody (German, Rhapsody ' ). The term Rapso therefore does not reflect the musical roots of the genre. The term Rapso was coined in the 1980s by the musician Brother Resistance.

Lancelot Layne published in 1970 hit Blow Away, which is regarded as the first publication of a Rapso songs, and in 1971 the plate Get off the radio. 1976 Cheryl Byron published her first pieces and is now considered the "mother of Rapso ". The 1980s were determined by the sound of Brother Resistance; in the 1990s, given the bands Kindred, Black Lyrics and 3 Canal the Rapso.