Prep
- Gilbert B. Rodman, ‘Race … and Other Four-Letter Words: Eminem and the Cultural Politics of Authenticity’(password-protected PDF), in Forman and Neal (2012)
- Audio: Eminem, ‘Stan’ (2000)
- Video: Adam Neely, ‘Scotch Snaps in Hip-Hop’ (11 March 2019)
In Class
- Attendance
- Q&A: Is cultural appropriation always a bad thing?
- Reading Notes for Next Time
- William Jelani Cobb, ‘Asphalt Chronicles: Hip Hop and the Storytelling Tradition’, in Cobb, To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic (NYU Press, 2007)
- Audio: TBD
- Video: ‘Ghostface Killah Crowns Best Storytelling Rap Song | Complex Brackets’, Complex (20 October 2021)
