History should have the force to slap you smack in the face, seeing your body hit the pavement hard, and then it spits in your eye just when you thought it was safe to look. In my history classes I try to teach history as a full on onslaught onto my student’s senses. History…

Hip Hop culture has been chronicled in various ways over its four decades of existence. Many scholars have attempted, and some very successfully, to write or compile works on the culture, and its most popular form – rap music. One of the most recent history lessons has come, not from a prominent scholar, but from…