Many of us millennial and Gen Z'ers grew up with hip-hop, discovering its amazingness through either MTV, BET, or our Gen X parent's collection of CD's. Throughout my childhood, I would snag my mom ...
Quick: Which of the following words would you expect to hear in a rap track? Actually, the answer is all of the above, thanks to the appearance of a new music CD that uses rap to help high-school ...
A human rights professor was fired after leading a discussion about the N-word with students, saying the word should be banned from rap music. That’s what the administration at George Washington ...
The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) annually hosts “Word. Sound. Power., ” a multi-disciplinary amalgamation of hip-hop, spoken word, dancing and theatrics. This year’s series theme, “Word: The New ...
In all the years I’ve been debating race and racism with white people, the most common response some have offered in their own defense hinges on black people’s use of the N-word. “If they can say it, ...
In 2009, Jay-Z famously sat down with Oprah and discussed the use of the N-word in hip-hop. Now, nearly 10 years later, the rapper is once again discussing word's place in hip-hop and arguing that the ...
What came first, the chicken or the egg? I often ask myself similar questions but with words or rap music. Do I love words because of rap music or rap music because of the words? I’m 44 and no closer ...
Not long after we completed the second or third Word of South Festival of Literature and Music here in Tallahassee, someone said to me, “So, you’re doing a festival related to words and music, and you ...
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