Diggin' In The Crates:
9th Wonder's Liner Notes Contest Winners |
 Student's final project was to pick a classic Hiphop album to analyze, study, dissect, and dismember. Then, write a narrative or liner note with all the details about the recording. See the results!
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 Students had full access to the Hiphop Word Count Database, a searchable online database built from the lyrics of over 50,000 Hiphop songs from 1979 to present day. The Hiphop Word Count generates textual and quantified reports on searched phrases, syntax, memes and socio-political ideas... (Read More)
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Pete Rock is a legendary producer, DJ, and rapper who has been active in hip hop since 1987. He first received exposure as a DJ on the radio show "In Control with Marley Marl... ( Read More)
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Artist Profile: DJ Premier
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DJ Premier was born in Texas and moved to Brooklyn, where he has been based for much of his career. Though his career began in 1984, he became well-known as a member of the duo Gang Starr with Guru in 1989, when they released their album No More Mr. Nice Guy. The two continued to work together until 2005... ( Read More)
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Born Patrick Denard Douthit in Winston-Salem, NC, 9th Wonder is a Grammy Award Winning Producer, DJ, College Lecturer, and Social Activist. Since his introduction to hip-hop in 1982, 9th has been immersed in the music and culture of ...(Read More)
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| Rap Genius | |
What started as the project of three undergradautes at Yale University has now become one of the internet's most viewed websites. Rap Genius is a user-generated content site that merges methodologies of websites including Wikipedia and Urban Dictionary to allow users to decipher rap lyrics, and "critque rap as poetry".
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What's Going On
@ Du Bois |
 W. E. B. Du Bois Institute
at Harvard University
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Hiphop Archive Newsletter
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The Hiphop Archive Announces Professor Mark Anthony Neal and Professor Christopher Emdin as the 2013 - 2014 Hiphop Archive Research Institute Fellows at The W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University.
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Twenty-six year old Issa Rae is a producer, writer, director and leading actress of the critically acclaimed web series "The Misadventurea of an Awkward Black Girl." Rae's success with AWG stands for more than presenting the trials and tribulations of awkward social experiences-she pushes back against stereotypical roles for black women onscreen.
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The Hiphop Archive Newsletter is distributed six times a year. It provides information about what is going on at the Archive and on our website.
Please make sure to check www.hiphoparchive.org frequently and participate in our blog called the Circle. We will be back with all new features, profiles, and surveys.
- Alvin Benjamin Carter III, Editor
104 Mount Auburn Street, 3R, Cambridge, MA 02138
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