June 2023 | V: Illicit Album Press Release
20 July 2022 | Hip-Hop Professor Raps To Advocate For Women’s Rights And Social Justice
by Tomas Kassahun for Blavity
19 July 2022 | The Tavis Smiley Podcast
19 July 2022 | WBEZ 91.5 Morning Edition
30 October 2020 | Composed: Musical and Literary Connections through the Ages
by National Humanities Center for Nerds in the Woods Podcast
9 October 2020 | Millikin Graduate Releases Groundbreaking Peer-Reviewed Rap Album
by Dane Lisser for Millikin University
5 October 2020 | Scholarly Rap: University of Michigan Releases First Peer-Reviewed Rap Album from Academic Publisher
by Colleen Flaherty for Inside Higher Ed
28 September 2020 | 4 Academics and a Rap Album: Discussing i used to love to dream
by Julius Bailey, ShaDawn Battle, and Dalitso Ruwe for Straight No Chaser
9 September 2020 | UVa Professor’s New Rap Album Prompts Deeper Examination of Form and Future
by Jane Sathe for The Daily Progress
20 August 2020 | A.D. Carson on His First-Ever Peer-Reviewed Rap Album
by Caroline Newman for UVA Today
13 July 2020 | The Hip-Hop Professor
by Kiara Imani for Sworn Testimonies Podcast
14 June 2020 | College Students Demand Change in Universities that Have a Racist Past
on Good Morning America
11 June 2020 | The Music Industry May Be Ditching the “Urban” Label
by Erika Beras for Marketplace Business News
25 Feb 2020 | From Lawyers to Language Practices: Two Hip-Hop Professors and the Living Legacy of 2 Live Crew
by Sarah Hartman-Caverly for Intellectual Freedom Blog
11 Dec 2019 | In Defense of Mumble Rap: A Misleading Term Excludes Forward-Thinking Artists
by Joseph Riley for The Cavalier Daily
27 Sep 2019 | A Hip-Hop Professor Explains Why People Love Chief Keef
by Tia Hill for Genius.com
03 Sep 2019 | Why 2020 Democrats love Lizzo
by Li Zhou for Vox
30 Aug 2019 | Finally, Meek Mill Confronts Freedom as an Artist and an Activist
by Justin Tinsley for The Undefeated
05 Aug 2019 | Professor of Hip-Hop Reflects on Two Years in Charlottesville, New Work
by Caroline Newman for UVA Today
12 July 2019 | Poetic Justice
on the With Good Reason podcast for Virginia Humanities
12 May 2019 | Dropping Knowledge: The Royale at Live Arts and Dropping Julia
on Home Grown podcast (Carson was sound designer and provided original music for the play The Royale at Live Arts in Charlottesville, VA)
19 Mar 2019 | The Rise of Sad Rap: How Hip-Hop Got the Blues
by Nosheen Iqbal for The Observer
5 Dec 2018 | Hip-Hop Finally Reckoned with Mental Illness in 2018
by Paul Schrodt for Men’s Health
23 Nov 2018 | On the 25th Anniversary of Snoop Dogg’s ‘Doggystyle’ — a Look Back at His Life and Times
by Justin Tinsley for The Undefeated
21 Nov 2018 | Well-Versed: A.D. Carson Finds His Place—in the Unlikely Bridging of Hip-Hop and Academia
by Erin O’Hare for C-Ville
17 Oct 2018 | Kanye West Keeps Getting in Trouble on the Political Stage. Should His Fans Keep Paying Attention?
by Helena Andrews-Dyer for The Washington Post Magazine
10 Sep 2018 | At ‘Disorientation,’ A.D. Carson Speaks on Institutional Racism at Universities
by Kara Peters for The Cavalier Daily
14 Feb 2018 | A.D. Carson Brings Hip-Hop Dissertation to Sac State
by Jordyn Dollarhyde for The State Hornet
08 Feb 2018 | Bwaaat! How the Air Horn Made Noise in Pop Music
by Christina Ayele Djossa for Atlas Obscura
05 Feb 2018 | Rapper and Professor A.D. Carson Speaks at Syracuse University as Part of Democratizing Knowledge Series
by Mateo Estling for The Daily Orange
24 Jan 2018 | Hip-Hop Professor, Rapper A.D. Carson to Visit Syracuse Feb. 5 for Black History Month
by Rob Enslin for Syracuse University News
14 Dec 2017 | Putting it Bluntly: Compton, Cannabis and ‘The Chronic’ — 25 Years Later
by Justin Tinsley for The Undefeated
25 Sep 2017 | UVA Hip Hop Professor Reflects On Charlottesville Tragedy
for HuffPost
10 April 2017 | On Hip-Hop, Teaching, and Social Justice: An Interview with A.D. Carson
by Darryl Robertson for Black Perspectives, published by African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS)
10 April 2017 | PhD Candidate Aydee The Great’s New Album Is A Study Of Black Excellence
by Marcus K. Dowling for Bandcamp
7 April 2017 | Doctoral Student’s Thesis is a Rap Album
for CapeTalk 567AM
4 April 2017 | #Backchannel: A Rap Album Dissertation and “Get Out”
by Frank Stasio, Charlie Shelton, Natalie Bullock Brown & Mark Anthony Neal for The State of Things
At Sacramento State University, 2018 | Photo by Robby Sanchez
