Afrika Bambaataa became the one to first practice it out of the streets and into clubs by his djeeing. Signifying or playing the dozens was a “particular form of verbal battle” (Durand 3) against two rappers where insulting and shaming the opponent was the focus. There was also the innovation into hip hop that year by Kool Herc who introduced the “Mobile Sound System and the Mixer” (Durand 3). Making Afrika Bambaataa and Kool Herc, the Grandfathers of Hip Hop. Due to that they were “the ones who helped rap music to enter the mainstream of America in the second half of the 1970s” (Durand
Afrika Bambaataa became the one to first practice it out of the streets and into clubs by his djeeing. Signifying or playing the dozens was a “particular form of verbal battle” (Durand 3) against two rappers where insulting and shaming the opponent was the focus. There was also the innovation into hip hop that year by Kool Herc who introduced the “Mobile Sound System and the Mixer” (Durand 3). Making Afrika Bambaataa and Kool Herc, the Grandfathers of Hip Hop. Due to that they were “the ones who helped rap music to enter the mainstream of America in the second half of the 1970s” (Durand