Owning My Masters: The Rhetorics of Rhymes & Revolutions by A.D. For my doctoral dissertation in 2017, I made a rap album and resisted any calls to submit a formally written explanation of the work. Those questions took on more importance in light of the fact that Ye recently launched Donda Academy, a private educational venture named after his late mother, Donda West, who was herself an English professor.Īs a rap artist, author and academic, I would never argue that reading lots of books is the only path to gaining knowledge or showing intelligence.Īfter all, I created the first-ever peer-reviewed hip-hop album published by a university press. When Ye – the artist formerly known as Kanye West – stated during a recent podcast that he doesn’t read books, some people questioned whether he was sending the wrong message to children.
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