Word: griot
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...roots are not Jamaican, nor Puerto Rican, nor African American, but African. It's part of the continuum of African art forms - in some traditional African societies, for example, we find the "griot," who is the storyteller or oral historian. How is that much different from an MC telling a story (think of Slick Rick, Ice Cube, or Snoop Dogg) or rhyming about the past...