I'm entirely right and yes they had Jazz and Blues in Africa long before whites were sentient. White people crack me up trying to tell me what Africans didnt have.
Then why did they wait for centuries before they exposed here?
They didnt. White people were just too ignorant to understand. Here is a white person to help you.
The African Origins of Jazz
Excellent article, inspecting the details of rhythms, polyrhythms, blue notes and
syncopation (which was unknown in European music, and which led to ragtime as well) --- all of which came from Africa.
We get so used to syncopation we forget it was Africa that gave it to us. One of my favorite examples--- the lead vocal, going in and out of syncopation, sometimes on the beat, other times completely off it --- all the while a prominent bass is doing the same thing:
Also worth noting: this version that became the hit is significantly more syncopated than the
first take. Clearly they knew what would make it come alive.
It isn't reaching too far to note that there's a certain
freedom in not being tied down to a precise beat, which is what the rigidly structured European tradition did...