Pablo Torre Finds Out
How Muhammad Ali’s Grammy-Nominated Comedy Album Changed Everything
01 Feb 2024
Float like a butterfly, sting like... a standup comic? Sixty years ago, long before the current golden age of smack talk, a 21-year-old Cassius Clay was nominated for a Grammy, for what should be considered the first diss album — a poetic, heavyweight takedown of Sonny Liston in the lead-up to their epic 1964 title bout. Andscape's Justin Tinsley tracks how this forgotten record led to the name Muhammad Ali, to national conversations around Black Muslims, to Ali protesting the Vietnam War, even to the birth of hip-hop... and the prevention of tooth decay.Further reading:The Grammy-nominated Cassius Clay (Andscape) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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