Kurtis Blow

Kurtis Blow

Style marker

Syncopated third-beat rhythm

Kurtis Blow's Basketball (1980) uses the highlighted rhythm pattern, typical of rap in the '70s and '80s:

Transcript of a line from Kurtis Blow's 1980 song Basketball.
Basketball (1980)

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