This past weekend I watched the documentary “Hip-Hop Evolution”. Like many hip-hop docs, the story chronicles the life of hip-hop from an underground niche art …
The Politics of Rap Lyrics – Part III
Kendrick Lamar’s “Complexion” – PART III Kendrick rips into the second verse with lines like, “I got the world’s attention…so I’mma (sic) say somethin’ …
On Complexion and Kendrick Lamar – Part II
Lamar articulately rhapsodizes about naivety in how society has constructed a hierarchy of violence based on the most uncontrollable form of one’s being – one’s …
Hip Hop’s Layers of Meaning – Kendrick Lamar’s “Complexion”
K. Lamar’s narration of complexion is not too complex to put into context. There has been no rapper who has taken it upon themselves to …
The Role of Hip-Hop in Education
In terms of the urban Black male, culture has a tangible correlation with academic excellence. But is it the student’s fault? Most would not argue …
How Schools Kill Black Boys
On Black male stereotypes Our current school system leaves Black boys set up in a way that is meant to deceive and ultimately fail them …
Educating the Drake Meek Beef
A few weeks back, Meek Mill now infamously went on a Twitter rant accusing Drake of not writing his own raps. Everyone who is somewhat familiar …
Black Boy, Interrupted II
Stuck in the Machine of Education, Part II Black boys, like myself, try for years to interrupt the arresting box of urban Black identity in clever and chameleon ways. …
Classroom Hip-Hop
On Hip-Hop Pedagogy I feel that all the hip-hop albums I have ever listened to, from Snoop Dogg’s Doggystyle to Kendrick’s To Pimp a Butterfly have …
Black Boy, Interrupted
Stuck in the Machine of Education, Part I If the Black boy was striving for acceptance amongst his peers as validation for his Blackness, …
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