My Hip Hop History

My Hip Hop History
There is one constant in all ghetto schools, and that is the rap battle. We would have rap battles all the time, perfecting our flows like real MCs, and if it wasn’t a rap battle it was a joke session or food fight in the lunchroom. My rap name was Cash on Delivery, or C.O.D. for short. On the streets, everyone still knew me as Lil’ Roze, or even my new street name, K.A.S.H: King, assassin, scholar, hitman. I tried to live up to that name’s meaning through my lyrics, slaying MCs in hip-hop ciphers. We all had crazy rap names like that, and we would throw them around in heated rap battles. My big bro Luechy and I were considered the two best rappers on our block. Other legendary rappers at Robeson were Travie, Tray B, Tate Da Great, Glenn, and Harold G.
During a lunchroom rap battle, we got a lot of attention from other students and teachers that were securing the lunchroom making sure we weren’t doing anything illegal, but the best rap battles were held after school. We battle-rapped against the other neighborhood’s B-Boyz and MCs, or mic controllers. Luechy was way better than me in freestyle rapping and I was better at beatbox, so I did most of the “cleanup” rapping. The cleanup was the finishing move, the

One of the enemy gangs was the Vice Lords, known as V.L.s, and the 4 Corner Hustlers, who were just a different branch of the V.L.s. The Vice Lords have many different branches, but I think their headquarters originated on the Westside of Chicago. They also had major branches on the Southside. It was just as well since their rival gangs had major branches on the Westside. The rivals of the Vice Lords were the Black P. Stone Nation, or B.P.S.N. They were also known as El Rukins back in the early 70s. The Latin Kings were a branch of Latinos that befriended that V.L.s when they were at war with any of the gangs that believed in the Star of