Grots vs Griots - What's the difference?
grots | griots |
* 2007, James McBide, Hip-Hop Planet , National Geographic (April 2007), 106,
As nouns the difference between grots and griots
is that grots is plural of grot while griots is plural of griot.griots
English
Noun
(head)- "The long history is that spoken-word music made its way here on slave ships from West Africa centuries ago: Ethnomusicologists trace hip-hop's roots to the dance, drum, and song of West African griots , or storytellers, its pairing of word and music the manifestation of the painful journey of slaves who survived the middle passage".