I'm so sorry to hear of Brother Isaac Freeman's illness. He blessed us with such a magnificent bass voice for so many years, and blessed me with some of the original Fairfield Four recordings transferred to tape by a man who collected their works. My father was with them in the '40s. Love this group still, and am now following Rev. Sam McCrary's daughters (The McCrary Sisters) around town singing their new CD "Our Journey." They perform some Fairfield Four songs a cappella.
Even earlier raps in the 20s Gospel rap if u will rhyming rhythm stanzas figurative speech and the mix of a story to be told in a rhythmatic form isn't regular gospel but gospel rap gospel the topic the rap is the way the words are present