The Art of Rap

Instructor Kawann Ohene Shockley teaches a course entitled "The Art of Rap" every Wednesday from 7 PM to 9 PM in Anderson Hall of Temple University in Philadelphia. This course covers the elements of writing hip-hop lyrics and is open to students and community members. Advanced registration is required.

Hip-Hop 101

Hip-Hop Scholar Michael Coard leads "Hip-Hop 101," during which we discuss the various elements of hip-hop. This class meets every Thursday in Anderson Hall of Temple University in Philadelphia and is open to students and community members. Advanced registration is required.

Essays in Hip-Hop

Essays in Hip-Hop exlores the ways in which the hip-hop generation responds to politics, religion, philosophy, etc.

Call for Papers

RAHM Nation Institute plans to launch a journal dedicated to Hip-Hop education in Fall semester of 2006. To learn more, or to submit an article, please e-mail us at rapademics@rahmnation.org. 

Articles:

Hip hop’s Requiem Over the Renaissance

Have you been listening to the radio of late? If so, you certainly will have heard the most popular song your commercial stations have given heavy rotation. This song, for those of us who defend Hip hop - as an actual art - has become Hip hop’s requiem.

In a time when milk and honey flows, and the tree of wisdom withers and dies, this is the song we sing.

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Making That Raw Sound

Underground Hip Hop production is best coded through one word: Raw. Raw is that hard hitting, no frills, straight from the vinyl sound that let's people know your song isn't for pop radio. For clarification, listen to "C.R.E.A.M" off of 36 Chambers, or any other track on that album for that matter. Still not sure what raw means? Grab something produced by DJ Premiere.

 

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