Murda Mook & Snoop Dogg to Host Battle Event for BET Hip Hop Awards. Aug 02, 2014 | 5:30 PM Written By: Desire T In an interview with Angry Fan Radio, Murda Mook discussed a special event he and Snoop Dogg have planned during the weekend of the BET Hip Hop Awards.
The event will take place before the award show, during the weekend festivities. Mook says Snoop reached out to him with the idea for the event. "He wanted to do a battle. He felt like, he didn't want to step into my territory without consulting me," he said. Battles planned for the event include John John Da Don vs. Mook also address backlash from the Total Slaughter event, Eminem as his dream battle, and why battle rappers should be paid like athletes. Check out the full interview above. Source: YouTube. S Top 100 Rap Battles Over The Past Few Years. There have been hundreds of rap battles that have taken place over recent years.
Beginning with the early Smack DVD days with the likes of Murda Mook and Loaded Lux squaring off inside barber shops, to now the grand stage of Webster Hall in NYC, battle rap has seen an enormous amount of evolution since its on-camera beginnings. Smack/URL has grown and broadened its roster of formidable lyricists, meanwhile the battle scene has transitioned into become a globally followed art form.
Over the years multiple battle leagues have formed such as UW Battle League, Lions Den, GrindTime, KOTD, and even embraced the participation from female spitters in Queen of the Ring. Top 10 Rap Battles in History. Click to enlarge From the Lux vs.
Calicoe battle To the casual observer battle rap might seem like an anachronism, until you realize that it's bigger than ever. William Dunbar: The Complete Works. From The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy. The Flyting of Dumbar and Kennedie. There are clues in the poem that suggest some of the features that the show must have contained.
Each of the combatants had a commissar, both of whom are named in the work and sometimes directly addressed by the performers. These are (respectively) Sir John the Ross for Dunbar and Quentin Shaw for Kennedy, both of whom were actual persons. Shaw (certainly) and Ross (probably) were also poets, and it seems possible that they played some material part in the performance. Ross, Shaw, and Kennedy are all three named as a group in the closing stanzas of Dunbar's Lament for the Makaris. Battle rap. Battle rap (also known as battle rapping or battle rhyming[1]) is a type of rapping that includes a lot of braggadocio (bragging and boasting) content "combined with put-downs, insults, and disses against real or imaginary opponents".[1] Battling can occur on recorded albums, though battle raps are often recited or freestyled spontaneously in live battles, "where MCs will perform on the same stage to see who has the better verses".[2] Battle rapping is described by 40 Cal in the book How to Rap as "extracurricular" and he compares it to the dunk contest in the NBA.[2] Battle raps are often written solely for the purpose of impressing people with technically inventive rapping,[3] and knowing a wide variety of rapping styles and a wide range of MCs is recommended.[4] Some MCs started out writing mostly battle raps and battling other MCs before they began making records.[5]
The Dozens. The Dozens is a game of spoken words between two contestants, common in African-American communities, where participants insult each other until one gives up.
It is customary for the Dozens to be played in front of an audience of bystanders, who encourage the participants to reply with more egregious insults to heighten the tension and consequently, to be more interesting to watch. Among African-Americans it is also known as "sounding", "joning", "woofing", "wolfing", "sigging", or "signifying", [ 1 ] [ 2 ] while the insults themselves are known as "snaps". [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The origin of the game is unclear, but it has roots in Africa: similar contests are held in Nigeria among the Igbo people , and in Ghana . Comments in the game focus on the opposite player's intelligence, appearance, competency, social status, financial situation, and disparaging remarks about the other player's family members— mothers in particular ("yo′ mama...
") —are common. Flyting. Flyting or fliting is a contest consisting of the exchange of insults, often conducted in verse, between two parties.[1] Description[edit] I will no longer keep it secret: it was with thy sister thou hadst such a son hardly worse than thyself.
Like ane boisteous bull, ye rin and ryde Royatouslie, lyke ane rude rubatour Ay fukkand lyke ane furious fornicatour Sir David Lyndsay, An Answer quhilk Schir David Lyndsay maid Y Kingis Flyting (The Answer Which Sir David Lyndsay made to the King's Flyting), 1536. Ajax: Thou bitch-wolf's son, canst thou not hear? Flyting is a ritual, poetic exchange of insults practiced mainly between the 5th and 16th centuries. Norse literature contains stories of the gods flyting. In Anglo-Saxon England, flyting would take place in a feasting hall.
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