The school of Jay-Z studies | Mychal Denzel Smith

A Georgetown professor was ridiculed for teaching a course on Jay-Z, but modern culture without hip-hop is unimaginableJudging by the amount of fuss he caused, one would think Georgetown University Professor Michael Eric Dyson had floated the idea of abolishing child labor laws. In reality, all he had done was announce that this semester he would be teaching a course entitled "Sociology of Hip-Hop – Urban Theodicy of Jay-Z." And it was Glastonbury all over again. The outrage flew from all dire...

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