• 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, 2009). Watch this before class; we’ll review a few scenes during class as they become relevant to our discussion.

In Class

1. 1. Attendance
   2. Q&A: Did hip-hop really begin in the Bronx?
   3. Reading Notes for Next Time

For Next Time

• Andrew Nosnitsky, ‘Classic Material’, Pitchfork (19 November 2012)
• Audio: This should go without saying, but you need to listen to Nas’s Illmatic (1993) album if you don’t already know it. Even if you do know it, you should revisit it.
• Video: Kendrick Lamar: Good Kid, m.A.A.d. Classic (21 October 2017)