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The Musical History Of Jelly

The Sporkful

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The Harlem Renaissance

The 1938 hip cat song "It must be jelly" is a call and response between two men talking about a woman. It invokes the tradition of going back and forth with burns like yomama jokes that has a long legacy in black American culture. The track came out just as the Harlem Renaissance drew to a close.

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