Prep
- Jennifer Lynn Stoever, ‘Crate Digging Begins at Home: Black and Latinx Women Collecting and Selecting Records in the 1960s and 1970s Bronx’, in Justin D. Burton and Jason Lee Oakes, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Hip-Hop Music (2018)
- Andrew Nosnitsky, ‘Classic Material’, Pitchfork (19 November 2012)
- Audio: Nas, Illmatic (1993)
In Class
- Attendance
- Q&A: What defines a hip-hop classic?
- Reading Notes for Next Time
- H. Samy Alim, ‘“Bring It to the Cypher”: Hip-Hop Nation Language’, in Forman and Neal (2012)
- Audio: Chief Rocker Busy Bee Starski vs. Kool Moe Dee of The Treacherous Three (Harlem World, 1981)
- Video: The Art of Diss: The History of Battle Rap (2023)
