| Scribble Jam | | | | Location(s) | Cincinnati, Ohio | | Years active | 1996-present | | Founded by | | | Date(s) | August | | Genre(s) | Hip hop | | Website | scribblemagazine.com | Scribble Jam is an annual hip hop music festival hosted in Cincinnati, Ohio, which has been called "America's Largest Hip Hop Festival." The festival was co-founded in 1996 by Scribble Magazine and DJ Mr. Dibbs of Atmosphere. Recently, the festival has grown in popularity as tens of thousands of hip hop fans flock to its grounds in early August. “Cincinnati†redirects here. ...
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Competition
The centerpieces of the Scribble Jam festival are the five competitions, four of which are designed to highlight the main aspects of hip hop culture. They include the emcee or freestyle battle, the DJ or scratching competition, the B-boy or breakdancing competition, and the graff-writer or graffiti competition. Recently, a Beatbox Battle has been introduced and become a fan favorite. Historically, the most popular of the competitions has been the freestyle battle, although all aspects of the hip hop culture are well represented. In the last five years, guest performances have come to the forefront, bringing in great numbers of fans. Past performers have included Big Daddy Kane, Lyrics Born, Masta Ace, Prince Paul, Wordsworth, Blueprint, Sage Francis, Brother Ali, Slug, Eyedea, MURS, DJ Vajra, The Animal Crackers, Glue, Immortal Technique and many more. Hip hop is a subculture, which is said to have begun with the work of DJ Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, and Afrika Bambaattaa. ...
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History The first ever Scribble Jam was held in 1996 at a small parking lot party. By the second year, however, word quickly spread around about the event and more hip-hop fans came to be a part of it. Since then, every following year seems to bring about twice as many spectators, participants, and performers to the now-heavily erect forum.
Some of hip hop's most well-known and well-respected stars got their start at Scribble Jam. The most famous Scribble Jam competitor of all time is Eminem. He participated in the 1997 emcee battle, managing to make his way to the semifinals along with MC Juice, Rhymefest and Dose One. In the semifinal rounds, he was defeated by both Rhymefest and Juice. Despite his good showing, Eminem has been criticized for using the same "freestyle" punchlines in both the 1997 Rap Olympics and the 1997 Scribble Jam competition. MC Juice Terry Jones who is better known by his stage name, Juice is a rapper from Phoenix, Arizona. ...
Che Smith, known by the stage name of Rhymefest, is an American hip hop artist (born January 1, 1977) from the South side of Chicago in Jeffrey Manor whose first official album, Blue Collar, was released on July 11, 2006. ...
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Artists associated with underground record labels such as Rhymesayers Entertainment, anticon., and Molemen Records have thrived in the Scribble Jam environment; capturing titles in the competitions, performing songs off of their albums, and selling their albums at booths. The record labels themselves have used Scribble Jam as a way to find up and coming artists. Rhymesayers Entertainment as a whole has benefited from Scribble Jam more than any other record label. This seems only fair, considering that current members of the record label were instrumental in first getting Scribble Jam off the ground. Mr. Dibbs, one of the co-founders of Scribble Jam, is now a Rhymesayers artist. Official Logo Rhymesayers Entertainment is an underground hip-hop music label based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, co-founded in 1995 by Slug, a member of the group Atmosphere. ...
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The Emcee Battle The emcee battle at Scribble Jam is arguably the most competitive in the country. Since its inception, the number of emcees eager to participate has increased immensely. In the early years, any MC with enough credentials to register, who could manage to show up on the correct day would be allowed to enter. More recently, regional qualifiers have been instituted, where emcees are forced to defeat the other battlers in their region before they can participate in the Scribble Jam festival in Cincinnati.
Past Winners
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iLLmacuLate (born Greg Poe in 1986) is an underground hip-hop artist from Portland, Oregon most well-known for winning the annual Scribble Jam emcee battle in 2004. ...
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DJ Competition - 1998- DJ Precyse
- 1999- DJ Precyse
- 2000- DJ Precyse
- 2001- DJ Sprite
- 2002- DJ Squint
- 2003- Skratch Bastid
- 2004- Skratch Bastid
- 2005- Spare Change
- 2006- DJ I-Dee
- 2007- Skratch Bastid
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B-boy Competition - 1996- Forrest Gump (Individual)
- 1997- Self-Explanatory
- 1998- Phase II
- 1999- Midwest Junkie Cats (Group with members of the Junkwartz and the Battlecats)
- 2000- Junkwartz
- 2001- Motion Disorderz
- 2002- Motion Disorderz
- 2003- Motion Disorderz
- 2004- Motion Disorderz
- 2005- Brickheadz
- 2006- Brickheadz
- 2007- Motion Disorderz
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Beatbox Battle - 2004- A Train
- 2005- J.Beetz (from SICK.SOUND.SYNDROME) Toronto, Canada
- 2006- DJ Snuggles
- 2007- Poizunus Toronto, Canada
Trivia - 1997 Eminem Got third place in the Scribble Jam MC Battle
- 2003, veteran rapper Deuce Leader went fat and jumped off the stage during a battle against legend MC Juice, being the only known emcee to do so in the middle of a bout. He suffered minor bone fragments and a casted leg, since the crowd refused to catch his overweight body.
- 2003 Veteran Rhymefest competed in both Scribble Jam 1997 and 2003. This is the largest gap between Scribble Jam entrances in any of the champions, as he managed to become the MC Battle Winner in 2003 and placed Second in 1997
He also wrote Jesus Walks for Kayne West Becoming Scribble Jams Second MC to win a Grammy Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), better known as Eminem or Slim Shady, is a Grammy and Academy Award-winning American rapper, record producer and actor from the Detroit, Michigan area. ...
MC Juice Terry Jones who is better known by his stage name, Juice is a rapper from Phoenix, Arizona. ...
Che Smith, known by the stage name of Rhymefest, is an American hip hop artist (born January 1, 1977) from the South side of Chicago in Jeffrey Manor whose first official album, Blue Collar, was released on July 11, 2006. ...
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- 2004 iLLmacuLate was the youngest MC to win the Emcee Battle.
- 2005 Justice became the only non-American citizen to win the much-coveted Emcee Battle in 2005. Hailing from Australia, he travelled a fourteen-hour flight from Melbourne and managed to claim the $10,000 grand prize.
- 2006 Deuce Leader , Reef The Lost Cauze and Sketch participated in Scribble Jams first ever Three-Way Battle Deuce Leader Won the Three-Way and Advanced to Battle Thesaurus in the next round.
- 2007 Kulez became to first ever entrant from the UK to enter Scribble Jam after winning the Jumpoff qualifiers in his home country. However he bowed out in the first round after losing controversially to Deuce Leader, as the mainly US crowd slept on his London Accent.
iLLmacuLate (born Greg Poe in 1986) is an underground hip-hop artist from Portland, Oregon most well-known for winning the annual Scribble Jam emcee battle in 2004. ...
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