The Rap Listening Sessions (The Golden age of Hip Hop)

Rakim and Mc Lyte. Slick Rick and Raekwon. Queen Latifah (before all the movies). Nas. L-Boogie. Jay-Z. Outkast....early Outkast. Check it.

This semester, we'll run a series of listening sessions concentrating on rap music, with a special focus on work from the so-called "Golden age of Hip Hop" (roughly the mid 80s through the mid to late 1990s). For years now, we've coordinated poetry listening sessions, we'll continue those and expand with some rap as well this semester.  

January
● January 23 -- 12:00 - 1:15 -- Selections from the Golden Age of Hip Hop [Underground Reading Room]* 
● January 24 11:00 - 3:00 -- Selections from the Golden Age of Hip Hop [Underground Reading Room]

February
● February 20 -- 12:00 - 3:00 -- Selections from Jay-Z [Underground Reading Room]
● February 21 -- 2:00 - 3:00 -- Selections from Jay-Z [Underground Reading Room]

March
● March 20 -- 12:00 - 3:00 -- Selections from Lauryn Hill [Underground Reading Room]
● March 21 -- 11:00 - 3:00 -- Selections from Lauryn Hill [Underground Reading Room]

April
● April 10 -- 12:00 - 3:00 -- Selections from conscious rap [Underground Reading Room]
● April 11 -- 11:00 - 3:00 -- Selections from conscious rap [Underground Reading Room]

*The Underground Reading Room is on the third floor of Lovejoy Library.