Prep
- Nelson George, ‘Hip-Hop’s Founding Fathers Speak the Truth’, in Forman and Neal (2012); also available in Forman and Neal (2004)
- Video: Founding Fathers: The Untold Story of Hip-Hop (Ron Lawrence and Hassan Pore, 2014?)
In Class
- Attendance
- TBA
- Reading Notes for Next Time
- Andrew Nosnitsky, ‘Classic Material’, Pitchfork (19 November 2012)
- Multimedia: Randall Roberts and Priya Krishnakumar, ‘Rap’s Main Street: the music of Rosecrans Avenue’, Los Angeles Times (19 January 2018). This isn’t a #storymap, but it’s pretty much the same idea.
- Audio: ‘Kendrick Lamar’s Anxiety Era’, Popcast (24 May 2022)