Hip-hop professor A.D. Carson. Dan Addison, CC BY As a rap artist who is also a professor of hip-hop, I always make it a point to have my songs reviewed by other artists I admire. So when I released “i used to love to dream” – my latest...
"i used to love to dream," by A.D. Carson, was named a 2021 Prose Category Award Winner (Best eProduct). Read the full list of winners here. [embed class="is-loading"]https://twitter.com/aydeethegreat/status/1354863822364925955?s=20&t=x22-W8Ra47VPkBXNUKPN9A[/embed]...
A.D. Carson's new album, i used to love to dream, is a mixtap/e/ssay that performs hip-hop scholarship using sampled and live instrumentation; repurposed music, film, and news clips; and original rap lyrics. As a genre, the mixtap/e/ssay brings together the mixtape—a self-produced or independently released...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Here’s the song itself. Take a listen. Editor’s note: Welcome to the latest installment of “On Words,” an occasional series in which faculty members write about evocative words and phrases. A.D. Carson, assistant professor of hip-hop and the Global...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Here is a project I did with Sundress Publications. Read their description of the series here. Click the image to read the Rap & Storytellingly Invention craft chap.If you have any problems with the audio I've uploaded the...