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Joseph Mitchell, Calypso, and the History of Battle Rap

Joseph Mitchell, Calypso, and the History of Battle Rap

I’ve been reading Joseph Mitchell’s Up In the Old Hotel, a fascinating collection of writings from the first half of the 20th century about New York street characters by one of the New Yorker Magazine’s most famous and eccentric contributors. If you haven’t read it, and you have a deep interest in the history of New York City, I highly recommend it.