I love the black 'Yo mama...' series so much that when a Chicago Tribune reporter wrote to ask about cussing contests (my grandfather, Henry, was a San Francisco champion in the 1920s) I did a google on 'Yo mama..' which probably grew out of the same cussing contest traditions.
The subject has a literary tradition reported in a book by Henry Gates, The Signifying Monkey. (I had the book in my library for two decades but never before connected it to the Henry Louis Gates.)