Donovan is talking out of his ass. He thinks that Tech influences himself, that rap and hip-hop are two genre's, and that rap came about in the 70's. George Clinton and Afrika Bambaataa helped shape the sound, but it was still rooted in FUNK. It wasn't until the early 80's that hip-hop/rap started to take shape through The Sugar Hill Gang, Grandmaster Caz, and Grandmaster Flashes efforts to bring the new sound to the forefront of popular music.