Prep

• Andrew Nosnitsky, ‘Classic Material’, Pitchfork (19 November 2012). ‘When many people call good kid, m.A.A.d city a classic, part of what they are unconsciously measuring is its Illmatic-ness. … Illmatic is an undeniable masterpiece, but it’s also a pretty narrow one …  selectively sidestepping a lot of the other things that great rap songs and albums can do and have done’ (Nosnitsky 2012).

Zoom Session

1. Keywords: Hybridity
2. Keywords: dozens, the
3. Keywords: signifying 
4. Keywords: canon; classic; classic-by-design
5. Q&A

For Next Time

• H. Samy Alim, ‘“Bring It to the Cypher”: Hip-Hop Nation Language’, in Forman and Neal (2012)