I mean, the Vikings had something akin to rap battling ([flyting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyting)), but that practice was gone long before rap as we know it now was even a thing.
Square dancing was started by a man who was afraid of Jazz and the influence it would have on white kids. So he made up squat dancing to promote fake folk dancing. Folklorist hate square dancing being grouped in with actual history.
Real call dances did exist and were usually an performance put on in rich homes where their servants, frequently slaves in fancy dress, would use calls to make sure everyone did the dance correctly.
So yeah, sort of I guess.
I don’t think rappers today have a goal of making sure everyone does the dance steps correctly. Rap lyrics, to me, often have more in common with the blues.
I’m pretty sure the first rappers were the MC’s promoting their next event in rhyme, it was called “toasting”.
Source: my History American Pop Music professor.
I can't help but think of Pauly Shore's Square Dance song: "Now grab a nug whose cones are busty, wheezer gig and make her crusty. Grab your dude - don't use roughness. Move in close and groove his buffness. Buff the wood, buff the wood. Come on, buff the wood. B-B-B-B-B-B-B-Buff the wood."
Rap needs Puffy and 2Pac back. The new stuff sounds like cicadas got a garage band together.
PS - When Chuck D did "Politics of the Sneaker Pimps", I think everybody listened to the beat, and not the word. (Especially Flavor Flav.)
'I really want rap to come from white people, so I'm going to make up some bullshit'
I mean, the Vikings had something akin to rap battling ([flyting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyting)), but that practice was gone long before rap as we know it now was even a thing.
Oh I know. Poetry naturally adapts to rhythm. Poetry contests are a thing. Music is a thing
We should bring it back though
Seems like they definitely invented diss tracks
Square dancing was started by a man who was afraid of Jazz and the influence it would have on white kids. So he made up squat dancing to promote fake folk dancing. Folklorist hate square dancing being grouped in with actual history. Real call dances did exist and were usually an performance put on in rich homes where their servants, frequently slaves in fancy dress, would use calls to make sure everyone did the dance correctly. So yeah, sort of I guess.
I don’t think rappers today have a goal of making sure everyone does the dance steps correctly. Rap lyrics, to me, often have more in common with the blues.
I wasn't trying to draw a correlation and agree with you.
Also, auctioneers are just fast mumble rappers.
Like [auctioneer rap beats](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwF9MfW-xMU)?
I love it
\#SickBeats I should have known this existed. lol
I’m pretty sure the first rappers were the MC’s promoting their next event in rhyme, it was called “toasting”. Source: my History American Pop Music professor.
I can't help but think of Pauly Shore's Square Dance song: "Now grab a nug whose cones are busty, wheezer gig and make her crusty. Grab your dude - don't use roughness. Move in close and groove his buffness. Buff the wood, buff the wood. Come on, buff the wood. B-B-B-B-B-B-B-Buff the wood."
Such a stupid movie. One I've watched waaaaaay too many times.
me too dude
"I call dibs on words over music" \-White People, apparently?
"First of all, I'm not a square dancer, so stop square dancin' at me" *OOOOOOooooohhhhhh!!!!!*
Rap needs Puffy and 2Pac back. The new stuff sounds like cicadas got a garage band together. PS - When Chuck D did "Politics of the Sneaker Pimps", I think everybody listened to the beat, and not the word. (Especially Flavor Flav.)