While at Jay-Z’s recent charity event, Dr. Michael Eric Dyson speaks with MTV about the impact Jay-Z has had on the culture and how he’s teaching a course at Georgetown, the Sociology of Hip Hop: Jay-Z, which revolves around the man himself.
Well obviously Jay-Z is one of the greatest entertainers of the world today. Not only is he a remarkable rhetorical genius, he’s also a man of deep sympathy and empathy for those who are lost and vulnerable, but especially under-educated youth of all cultures and stripes.
Speaking out against rap music is useless, and it’s futile. The reality is there’s criticism for everything, but Jay-Z is one of the most remarkable artists of our time of any genre, and as a hip-hop artist he carries the weight of that art form with such splendor and grace and genius. I admire the way in which he carries himself and the incredible craft that he displays every time he steps up to the microphone.
The required reading for the course? Jay-Z’s Decoded (which will soon be re-released as a paperback), Adam Bradley’s Book of Rhymes and Zack O’Malley Greenburg’s Empire State of Mind.
What a dick rider lol
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What did Jay-Z give people in his music other than drug dealing & commercial consumption? Any significant social commentary? Very little. Michael Eric Dyson is making a mistake with this one.
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I admire jay’s accomplishments but decoded as required reading is a little much
Its funny when people always got something retarded to say about Jay. Regardless of your personal opinion, the man impacted (and still does) hip hop and an entire generation and is one of the main reasons its as popular as it is today. He also is top 3 ALL TIME on most credible GOAT lists. Fuck the money. Fuck the fame. The dude has more classics than everyone from the past 10 years or so COMBINED. # anditsnotSlurpSlurpifitsfacts
Damn I wish this new generation of kids would just go away but like herpes they keep coming back…..
jay-z had a big impact on hip hop jigga one of the greats but they should have a class on Tupac
Should be interesting when someone asks Michael Eric Dyson where some of the funding came from for him to do the course. Will he directly answer that question?
@jay. Michael eric dyson is in like every tupac documentary lol. im sure he covers tupac in the class, tooo important of a figure
Seriously…
I’ll buy an inexpensive used copy someday.
… Not to hate on any man’s grind for survival, but this dude … I just don’t like this dude at all! First and foremost, he’s cake’d waaaay to much of Tupac. He In every Pac documentary, writes books bout Pac, and teaches courses bout Pac’s music and influence … and now he want’s the Jay-Z (cake) demographic! I ain’t doubting he’s teaching about talented, entrepreneurial, poetic, influential individuals … but at the end of the day … he aint gonna school me son! He prolly just getting at Jay to holla at Beyonce! lol