ESSAYS
2023
- SPIN “HIP HOP IS DOPE AND AMERICA IS A DOPEFIEND HOOKED ON THE FRUIT OF ITS OWN BRUTALITY”
- Washington Post (with Felicia Angeja Viator) “Will AI inspire hip-hop artists — or displace them?”
- Rolling Stone “How Hip-Hop Gave Me a Second Chance at Life”
- The Conversation “Tupac’s ‘Dear Mama’ endures as rap artists detail complex relationships with their mothers”
- The Conversation “A hip-hop professor explains what the word ‘dope’ means to him”
2022
- The Conversation “Rappers are victims of an epidemic of violence–like all of America”
- The Conversation “Hip-Hop fosters a love of Literature”
- Scalawag “beyond a better hell”
- The Conversation “Roe v. Rap: Hip-hop artists have long wrestled with reproductive rights”
- The Conversation “Scapegoating rap hits new low after July Fourth mass shooting”
- The Conversation “When all else fails to explain American violence, blame a rapper and hip-hop music”
- Washington Post “Grammys have little credibility in the hip-hop community. Here’s why.”
2021
- Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy – Issue 26.1: “Listening roundtable for Sleepwalking 2”
- Art Papers “Review – The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse”
- The Conversation “Hip-Hop Holiday Signals a Turning Point in Education for a Music Form that Began at a Back-to-School Party in the Bronx”
- Inside Higher Ed “Colleges and Universities Need More Rappers”
- The Conversation “Why Gil Scott-Heron’s ‘Whitey on the Moon’ Still Feels Relevant Today”
- The Conversation “10 Hip-Hop Songs to Take You On a Voyage Into Space”
- NPR Code Switch “A Letter to My Mother – Just in Case”
- The Conversation “Hip-Hop Professor Looks to Open Doors with World’s First Peer-Reviewed Album”
2020
- UVA Today “On Words: Ampersand”
2018
- Scalawag “Under the Cover of Darkness”
- C-Ville “Decades in The Making: Reflections On Film And Reality with Menace II Society’s Allen Hughes”
2017
- The Offing “Anna, Illinois”