// Class Playlists
A taste of what we're listening to at home
// Class Videos
A taste of what we're watching in class
Artist: Misc
Title: ENC1145: Writing About Hip Hop & Rhetoric
Comments:
Everything from Sugarhill Gang to Tyler, The Creator. These are the songs we're listening to for homework.
Artist: Misc
Title: Final Mixed Tape Projects
Comments:
If you could pick only 5 songs to introduce someone to the genre of hip hop, what would you pick? These playlists represent some of my students' picks.
Artist: Muddy Waters
Title: "Hoochie Coochie Man"
Comments:
Before there was hip hop, we had the blues. And before we can talk about a potential hip hop matrix, we need to understand Houston Baker's Blues Matrix.
Artist: Public Enemy
Title: "He Got Game"
Comments:
Take an old song, make it new. Sampling, politics, radical revisions, and the influence of other genres.
Artist: Dr. Dre & Snoop Dog
Title: "Ain't Nuthin' But a G Thang"
Comments:
In the early 1990s G Funk emerges to sells a sound, a lifestyle, an image. Dre and Snoop show us what's up.