Clean Race is a track by reggae DJ David Scott, a.k.a. Scotty. He was an extremely popular singjay: reggae singer and DJ toaster. He started his musical life when still at high school in the 1960s, founding a reggae trio called The Federals with classmates Valman Smykle and A J Franklin. The Federals soon caught the attention of producer Derrick Harriott, with whom they would record a series of singles.
Clean Race
Many of his songs feature a kind of style known as singjay. Singjaying is a subgenre of Jamaican reggae music and combines toasting and singing in a loose rap style.Clean Race that was released on Song Bird in 1972, is a perfect example of singjaying, one of the direct predecessors of rap music.
Roots of Rap is dedicated to rap music prior to 1980! It is a blog about the history of rap music and the origins of hiphop culture. It's about rap before there was rap. It's about proto rap until it became mainstrain in 1979 when Sugarhill Gang’s song Rapper’s Delight, introduced a completely new audience to this genre.
