Prep

• Review Davarian Baldwin, ‘Black Empires, White Desires: The Spatial Politics of Identity in the Age of Hip-Hop’, in Forman and Neal (2012)
• Review Matt Miller, ‘Rap’s Dirty South: From Subculture to Pop Culture’, in Forman and Neal (2012)

Zoom Session

1. Keywords
   • authenticity
   • conspicuous consumption
   • Dirty South, the

For Next Time

• Jesse McCarthy, ‘Notes on Trap’, n+1 (Fall 2018). This is quite a heady and ‘literary’ take on the genre, written in a somewhat ‘paratactic’ style. This is more of a reading to puzzle over, pick through, and maybe find some nuggets of insight — I know I’ve said that about a number of our recent texts, but it’s really true of this one. I think this is a good one to look at right now because you can read it in little bits and pieces, and maybe it’ll spark an idea for your final project. Here’s the link to my annotations on Hypothesis.