Talking 'Bout Your Mama: The Dozens, Snaps, and the Deep Roots of Rap by Elijah Wald
Talking 'Bout Your Mama: The Dozens, Snaps, and the Deep Roots of Rap
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Elijah Wald
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Talking 'Bout Your Mama: The Dozens, Snaps, and the Deep Roots of Rap

Elijah Wald

256 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history music reflective slow-paced
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From Two Live Crew's controversial comedy to Ice Cube's gangsta styling and the battle rhymes of a streetcorner cypher, rap has always drawn on deep traditions of African American poetic word-play, In Talking 'Bout Your Mama, author Elijah Wald ex...

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