For the evening crowd: Today Alvin Smith tracked the history of battle rap to the 1930s verbal game called The Dozens The most famous Dozens recording is the 1938 recording performed by Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe, known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton, the self-proclaimed inventor of Jazz music. This concept of taking an African-American oral tradition and putting it to music is a time honored tradition that continues until this very day. The utilization of rhyming mechanisms and swift off the cuff lyrics needed during bouts of The Dozens was easily transferred into the linguistic styles utilized by MC’s during rap battles in the early days of the Hip-Hop era. This makes it clear then that The Dozens, as Elijah Wald writes, is “Rap’s Mama”. Read Alvins full post here: wp.me/p4pW4m-KG youtu.be/aRSMaKJySlY
Posted on: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 16:44:24 +0000
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