{"id":8006,"date":"2009-05-20T09:42:56","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T16:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=8006"},"modified":"2009-05-20T09:45:36","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T16:45:36","slug":"the-poetics-of-hip-hop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/05\/20\/the-poetics-of-hip-hop\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poetics of Hip Hop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest052009\/2009_05_20_bradley.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest052009\/2009_05_20_uprising.MP3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/www.netweed.com\/prohiphop\/graf\/bookofrhymes.jpg\" alt=\"book of rhymes\" \/>An editor of a popular Canadian hip hop website called for a ban last week of rapper Cam\u2019Ron\u2019s new \u201ccomeback\u201d album saying that his lyrics glorify violence. Kemi Omololu Olunloyo, who operates Hiphossip.com, singled out the song, \u201cI Hate My Job\u201d off therapper\u2019s  latest record entitled, \u201cCrime Pays,\u201d in urging the Best Buy store chain not to carry the title. Olunloyo has also call for Canadian immigration officials not to allow Cam\u2019Ron into the country for any potential tour dates. This recent controversy over rap and its lyrics has been an ever present one for much of hip hop\u2019s history. However, a new scholarly work by Adam Bradley, an assistant professor of Literature at Claremont McKenna College, is challenging the conventional conversation by appraising hip hop lyrics as a revolutionary innovation in contemporary poetry. \u201cBook of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop,\u201d analyzes rap though its rhymes, similes, storytelling, and wordplay in constructing the argument that the genre has changed a generation\u2019s relationship to the spoken word. Dr. Cornel West has called Bradley\u2019s work, \u201ca marvelous exploration into the poetic genius of rap and the cultural gravity of hip hop. His analysis is subtle, sophisticated and soulful!\u201d <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Adam Bradley, author of &#8220;Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop,&#8221; assistant professor of Literature at Claremont McKenna College. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Adam Bradley will be in conversation with novelist Colson Whitehead on Wednesday evening at 7 pm at the Central Library, W 5th Street in Los Angeles. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An editor of a popular Canadian hip hop website called for a ban last week of rapper Cam\u2019Ron\u2019s new \u201ccomeback\u201d album saying that his lyrics glorify violence. Kemi Omololu Olunloyo, who operates Hiphossip.com, singled out the song, \u201cI Hate My Job\u201d off therapper\u2019s latest record entitled, \u201cCrime Pays,\u201d in urging the Best Buy store chain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}