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born 1949 England
David Toop (born 5 May 1949), is an English musician and author, and professor and chair of audio culture and improvisation at the London College of Communication. He was a prominent contributor to the British magazine The Face.
Also known as: Rap Attack
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"These kind of narrative poems are called toasts. They are rhyming stories, often lengthy, which are told mostly amongst men. Violent, scatalogical, obscene, misogynist, they have been used for decades to while away the time in situations of enforced boredom, whether prison, armed services or streetcorner life."
It was a DJ style which helped to create the lifestyle which came to be known as hip hop. At the beginning of the disco era in the first half of the 1970s, regular disco jocks in clubs were most concerned with the blend between one record and the next - matching tempos to make a smooth transition which, at its best, could continually alter the mood on the dancefloor without breaking the flow.
David Toop (1991)