How the French invented hip-hop...

Most people are under the erroneous impression that hip-hop was formed somewhere in New York in the late seventies. Quite how this ludicrous myth managed to become fact over the years is beyond me. As the following two tunes will attest, hip-hop was clearly first created by gallic stereotype Serge Gainsbourg in the late sixties and later updated by fellow countryman and electro-ponce Jean Michael Jarre:

SergeGainsbourg_RequiemPourUnCon by Jugend Klub

JeanMichaelJarre_Zoolook by Jugend Klub

Copies of my new book "How The French Invented Hip-Hop" can be found in all good supermarkets, photocopied during my lunch-break and then stuffed into boxes of tea-bags and slipped between slices of bread.

John Napier