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Hip-Hop Can Document Life in America More Reliably Than History Books

Describing my 2017 appointment as a faculty member, the University of Virginia dubbed me the school’s “first” hip-hop professor. Even if the job...

A.d. Carson

There’s an impulse by universities and media to inaccurately document hip-hop’s history. The genre is, in part, a response to that imprecision, a...

It’s always awkward telling people what I do for a living. I’m a rapper. I also work as a professor of hip-hop. I work at the intersection of...

Usually when a rap artist comes out with a new album, it’s released by a record label as part of their career as an entertainer. For Dr. A.D....