How The Blues Transformed Into Hip-Hop

Where pain and loss reside, there is blues music. Although blues music could trace as far back as any amount of lamentations over the years, its seeds were sown in the deep south. According to Musical U, “The genre originated during the pre-Civil War era in the southern United States”, sung from the oppression and pain in slavery. The raw emotions would grow up in the Mississippi Delta and began to be recorded for wider…