Prep
- Andrew Nosnitsky, ‘Classic Material’, Pitchfork (19 November 2012)
- Audio: Nas, Illmatic (1994). The link takes you to YouTube. Try to listen to this on vinyl, CD, or high-quality WAV/AIFF/FLAC files, if at all possible
- Audio: Kendrick Lamar, Good Kid, m.A.A.d. City (2012). Try to listen to this on vinyl, CD, or high-quality WAV/AIFF/FLAC files, if at all possible.
- Attendance
- Q&A: TBA
- Reading Notes for Next Time
- Adam Bradley, ‘The Artists Dismantling the Barriers Between Rap and Poetry’, The New York Times Style Magazine (4 March 2021). Hip-hop MCs embracing poetry, hip-hop generation poets influenced by hip-hop. Plus the Third Way of spoken-word poetry, or poetry as live performance. And the role of women of colour in creating all this synergy.
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Video: ‘Rapping, deconstructed: The best rhymers of all time’, Vox (19 May 2016)
