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Brain Rot: Hip Hop Family Tree, Busy Bee vs. Kool Moe Dee pt. 1

Ed Piskor at 7:30 am Tue, Oct 30, 2012

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A cliffhanger!
mrmambo

You can listen to part of this actual competition from 1981 at the Harlem World Christmas Rappers Convention:

From the beginning of Busy Bee’s set:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DQ5BER16-I

And Kool Moe Dee’s set:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfdbxiKF1nE&feature=relmfu
- http://ae4rv.com/ royaltrux
  
  Way to spoil a cliffhanger. Kool Moe Dee is way ahead of his time, that rocked.
http://www.wizzywigcomics.com Ed Piskor

Hip Hop luminaries speak about the battle. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kps6XyuWMQ
http://twitter.com/Contrasoma Bruce

I’ve been waiting for Ed to get to this since the series started.