Rap Music Documentary Intro

The tension of competitive rivalries is often a key ingredient for creating art. A young renaissance painter named Leonardo Da Vinci engaged in a battle of words with a great master Michelangelo. Brach and Picasso were so similar in their cubist style it was difficult to tell who painted what. The traditionalist Brahms and the avant-garde Bruckner created a division among classical music enthusiasts. Fights were known to breakout before premieres. And long nights on the road would provide opportunity for musical warfare between jazz greats Bird and Coltrane. One musical art form born in the inner city with roots in Jamaica dancehall music embraced this spirit of competition like no other, creating a provocative world of words taunts and insults. This musical art form would create a culture called hip-hop. And thus began the battle of MC’s.