This Day in Halloween: Jimmy Spicer’s “Adventures of Super Rhyme” is released by Dazz Records in 1980, the first known “Horrorcore” rap. / Illustration by Cesar Arias

May 21, 2022

Jimmy Spicer’s “Adventures of Super Rhyme” is released by Dazz Records in 1980, marking arguably the first known appearance of “Horrorcore” rap. The lengthy rap includes a portion where Spicer recounts meeting Dracula. 

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