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The Dozens is a game played between two contestants in which the participants insult each other until one of them gives up. Common in African American communities, the Dozens is almost exclusively played in front of an audience, who encourage the participants to reply with increasingly severe insults in order to heighten the tension and consequently make the contest more interesting to watch.
"Stick you in a dozens and yo pappy is yo cousin "And yo mama do the lawdylawd" The following year, 1930, he recorded again, this time in Chicago , Illinois , resulting in most notably "The Dirty Dozens No. 2," which was not nearly as successful and the pianist was without a contract or label and again playing making the rounds at Memphis ...
While the previous entries relied on homophonic double-entendres, this one mines another classic comedy trope: Little kids cracking "yo mama" jokes in the schoolyard. Yes, Kmart is playing the Dozens.
A "yo mama" joke or your mom joke is a form of humor involving a verbal disparaging of one's mother. Used as an insult, "your mother..." preys on widespread sentiments of parental respect. Suggestions of promiscuity and obesity are common, [1] but the form's limit is human ingenuity.
The 1980s produced chart-topping hits in pop, hip-hop, rock, and R&B. Here's a list of the best songs from the time, ranging from Toto to Michael Jackson.
The Dogs were a 1990s hip hop group consisting of Disco Rick, Keith Bell, Labrant Dennis, and Fergus "Cracked Up" Smith, best known for "Crack Rock," their hit single with the chant "Yo' Mama's on Crack Rock!"
Yo mama joke were very popular in the 80s. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.105.192.2 23:55, 12 March 2008 (UTC) Actually "Your mom/yo mama" taunts were common in the 60's as well. Likely they go back to far, far earlier times. The article does make it sound like a relatively recent phenomenon. Nibios 16:23, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
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