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and been doing it at Duke for a minute. (i think he also did some shit w/ Harvard as well).
2nd, you wrong, and backward af. if you've ever heard 9th speak on hip hop he knows a LOT about the history. really of black music. he's like a mini-quest (no dis intended). he has also been recognized as a major creative figure in hip hop (he's done critically acclaimed shit for underground groups as well as mainstream artists).
3rd, it has certainly been about time for hip hop to get the academic treatment. when it's someone like Michael Eric Dyson, who got love for the music but isn't necessarily grounded in it, we shit on them. and then if someone who HAS put in work, and has demonstrated depth in the subject matter AS WeLL AS ability to translate that to the broader culture (i'ma throw bun b in that, although i didn't see anything about that), we shitting on that, too? really?
4th, are you shitting on the cited assignment? there's any number of cats on this board who could create a very detailed, well-reasoned and yes, scholarly rationale for a selection of a list, although that is a quintessentially lessony ass thing to do. but if it is a way to get kids to engage with the culture, think critically, and support their arguments, using the 'top x' trope as a starting point? what's wrong with that?
y'll too cool for school ass niggas are really too much, sometimes.
if this ain't your lane, fine. but what 9th is doing is important.
also, i HATE duke (or, at least duke bball which seems to embody the school). however, duke also has folks like Mark Anthony Neal (with whom, by the way, 9th frequently collaborates).
duke also had, for many years, Dr John Hope Franklin, one of the nations most accomplished historians and the preeminent chronicler of the african american experience.
this is a really dumb poast.
peace & blessings,
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