Arizona Finally Get's One Right: Hip Hop Degree (Go Cats!)

[Brown_Pride]

University of Arizona introduces first hip-hop minor - Phoenix News - KTAR.com

Do you have a passion for hip-hop music that simply can't be addressed by a standard college education?

That problem no longer exists for students at the University of Arizona, who can now pursue a minor in hip-hop, the first degree of its kind in the nation.

While some might think hip-hop isn't suitable for serious study, Alain-Philippe Durand, director of Africana Studies, disagrees. For decades, scholars have trained their academic eyes on the music, fashion, street art and dance that express a now global cultural phenomenon. They don't study hip-hop for its catchy beats. They study it because it's a river that roars through societies, shaping their cultural and political landscapes as it goes.
Student do more than just listening to music and writing papers, they break down each line and consider how multiple identities have overlapped to create what we know as hip-hop today.

 

[theworldismine13]

bu bu bu hip hop is just music!!!

 

[Mr. Somebody]

Well now that hiphop culture is so marketable and lucrative 2 the economy i can see how someone could major in business with a hiphop minor for a specific endeavor into hiphop related marketing/business. Probably give a more honest model for hiphop related products, advertising from someoene who has a gleamed understanding of the culture.

I just dont know if you're hiphop because you have a hiphop degree though.

 

[Brown_Pride]

I wonder if they will have a class on hanging someone over a balcony until they sign a contract?

and no, a degree in hip hop does not make you "hip hop". It makes you degreed in hip hop.

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

shouldnt be allowed without a performance requirement (rapping classes)

 

[theworldismine13]

Well now that hiphop culture is so marketable and lucrative 2 the economy i can see how someone could major in business with a hiphop minor for a specific endeavor into hiphop related marketing/business. Probably give a more honest model for hiphop related products, advertising from someoene who has a gleamed understanding of the culture.

I just dont know if you're hiphop because you have a hiphop degree though.

knowledge is an element of hip hop just like any other element, that being said getting this degree doesnt make you any more or less hiphop than listening to the radio

 

[Brown_Pride]

shouldnt be allowed without a performance requirement (rapping classes)

just call her boo
I don't know her whole name
Keep it on the low mane
All we eat is lo mien
Came from the block
Now I gotta whole thang
And you betta put a low jack on yo hoe mane

F

 

[Sugafoot]

Does that mean that every rapper gets a degree, even chief keef?

Writing papers and having presentations about lil b and gucci mane

 

[you're NOT "n!ggas"]

i don't see nothin wrong with classes but a degree?

 

[ExodusNirvana]

shyt is meaningless without a Battle elective, and a 300 level course on rocking the mic right.

Can we get a few guest lectures from Dr. Tyson and GZA as well?

 

[Brown_Pride]

Does that mean that every rapper gets a degree, even chief keef?

Writing papers and having presentations about lil b and gucci mane

well being that education is on decline in america it would fit

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

F

:alc:

I'm sportin flavors and Timbs, a ninety-five Bezn with the chrome rims
Presedential Rolex, two carat diamonds with the stone gems
Pockets filled with lucci leather wallets designed by Gucci
Parlay in resteraunts, eatin shrimp, scampi and sushi
Fly minks, with icicles that blink inside cuban links
Lookin ?, brothers stink, got loot like I'm doin banks
Hundred dollar bottles of chammy, condos in Miami
Front row seats up at the Grammy's, the broke nikkaz can't stand me
Hold the flame low, hotel suites inside the Flamingo
Just home by the dingos, I step up in em rockin Kangols
Straight up fakin no jacks, cause all my crackshacks are jam packed
My mad stacks, show that I'm on the right track, like Amtrak
So stand back, cause I'ma make whatever it takes
to shake Jakes, and shoot snakes, and bake more snowflake cakes than Drake's
Cut up your grill like I'm the Barber of Seville
Still like Gotti bodies are found inside the harbor cause I'm ill
It's war, but no more kids are bein kidnapped, matter of fact
ain't with the shyt black, I was young when I did that
There's dope in the Copa Cabanas, cock back the hammers
So nikkaz in pajamas get they wigs split like bananas
Stable of hotties, nikkaz with shotties catchin bodies
Neighborhood John Gotti with more notes than Pavarotti
Yeah, paid as a motherfukkin bank teller
The Goodfella, I stay a motherfukkin drug seller

A+ A+

 

[theworldismine13]

i don't see nothin wrong with classes but a degree?

despite what you have heard, hip hop is not a form of music, hip hop is a culture so its completely appropriate to have a degree in hip hop

 

[Brown_Pride]

Lemonade diamond bracelet, put it in ur face (BURR)
Lemonhead diamond earrings I wore yesterday (BURR)
Im pimpin where im winnin, thats just how I’m chillin
Im smokin grits and sellin chickens, corvette painted lemons

F

 

[Brown_Pride]

Weezy F. Baby and the 'F' is for phenomenal

F .... F in english too.