I'm very surprised at the tone of this post; so often posters here (not you, k) cry about how the Establishment refuses to recognize the artistic merit in hip hop and how unfair that is; and now that you see a movement that could asist greatly in that recognition, you decry it? Odd.

Anyway, to summarize some vibes I pick up from this post and elsewhere as reasons people might object are:

-the quantification and strict defining of hip hop, which can be seen as a limiting factor;
-the fact that most hip hop intellectuals are dweebs;
-the underlying fear that hip hop will not stand up to the scrutiny usually reserved for forms like jazz or classical;
-the fact that 'hip hop academia' might sacrifice research/argument standards in favor of PC conclusions;
-the study of hip hop as an ethnomusicology subject (where it's been studied for at least 15 - 20 years) further enforces the idea that hip hop is not a part of mainstream or pop culture, but rather some sort of wild tribal music to be fetishized by academics;
-the idea that if you're studying it in an academic setting, you can't be living it.

So k, if you were arguing against teaching hip hop classes in college, what would your argument be?

Alternatively, if you were forced to teach a class, what would its focus be and how would you go about it?