Imagine you make a blueprint for a futuristic vehicle nobody has ever seen before. I mean, there were vehicles before yours, but the one you created was different, better, an improvement on what was previously done. It was accessible. It was innovative. It was something old, but...
I’ve met a lot of white people and had lots of “honest conversations” about racism. Lots of those conversations intersect with conversations about rap music. Many of those conversations have been with racist people, some of whom believed me to be racist. Naturally, when there's a...
Recently, two popular rap artists, 21 Savage and Lil Uzi Vert, separately addressed drug use and abuse among the current generation of rappers. 21 Savage’s remarks are toward “OG Rappers” who criticize the current generation’s creative output. He says, “They say we make drug user music like...
Just a few weeks into his new role as a music professor at the University of Virginia, hip-hop artist A.D. Carson has produced a new album. Carson, who earned his Ph.D. from Clemson University in May, wrote, performed and produced his previous album as his dissertation...