By Osagie Alonge
When Brooklyn rapper Sean ‘Jay Z’ Carter released his debut album in 1996, he would never have thought that he would be studied as a course in a University years later.
Well, Georgetown University have launched a course called ‘Sociology of Hip Hop: Jay-Z’ which will be studying the Grammy Award-winning rapper. About 140 students have already enrolled for the course – according to the school, this is three times the size of a normal seminar.
The syllabus includes units like ‘Hustling Hermeneutics’ and ‘Monster of the ‘Double Entendre’ and will be taught by seasoned sociologist Michael Eric Dyson who boasts of eighteen books to his name including historical assessments of Martin Luther King to musings of 2pac.
We wanted to take up a serious investigation of (Jay-Z’s) art and craft. Behind the billionaire sexiness of a pop cultural icon, it is worth considering what the rhetorical and literary fuss is about’, Dyson told U.S. magazine,The Nation.
Dyson says he has talked about the curriculum with Jay Z, 41 and the rapper has no objections.
Jay Z in his 22-year long rap career has sold over 50 million albums.
11 comments
Dats great
Might want to enrole myself to see what’s like
This is unbelieveable
it is a foolish thing to study jay z
The oyinbos have gone mad we need prayers so we don’t get infected with it. God help us!!
which one is studying Jay Z as a course? The educational system generally is really deteriorating….
wow… things are rilli gettin out of hands dis dayz, studyin Jay-Z dats crab
As a African/America….this is totally ridiculous!!!
out of point comment,without assesing the sense they are trying to make for the record it not a general course, it’s for art students,studying to venture into the msic bizness
Don’t know. I think it’s bad as long as they gat something doing after the course and it as helped in the musical way
approve the course 2 b studied is absurdity i.e madness. Course abuse men!