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Word is Born

By: Secret Agent 23 Skidoo
Narrated by: Secret Agent 23 Skidoo
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Grammy winning family hip-hop artist Secret Agent 23 Skidoo’s rhyme-writing workshop will get aspiring rhymers ready for the limelight. Skidoo breaks down song writing and performing basics into easy-to-follow examples alongside short chapters featuring cultures that have songs at their core, including West African griots, Australian indigenous songline culture, and Viking rhyme battling.

This unique combination of how-to and history showcases musicians and singers performing traditional styles, then flips them into contemporary hip-hop songs celebrating their cultures. With an opening chapter and original music by hip-hop founding father Grandmaster Caz of the Cold Crush Brothers, Word is Born is full of techniques and tales that will help you sing your own song.

Ages 10+

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Man! I re-listen and re-listen. Early days in my craft and artistry and would consider this one of the fundamental texts on my foundational learning.

Incredibly well rounded and to the point. It is evident an incredible amount of care and research was input to prepare this to be such an amazing journey of text. With factual information, real life examples from an expert in the field (he got stripes yo) and reaffirmed with an intro from a founding father. You know as soon as you realise, that this text checks out and has been vouched for by the greats who started the cultural movement.

Thank you for being an incredible teacher in communicating very complex and sacred practices pertaining to the art of rap in the culture of hip hop! I truly appreciate it and I’m sure others do too!

Very good learning tool for rap knowledge

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