CONTENTS:

Institute News

Bespoke analysis

Diversifying scholarship through transformative pedagogical practices

Critial Minded: 20th Anniversary keynote

Notes to a Metaphorology of Sampling

by RÔMULO MORAES BARBOSA

The Kendrick Lamar/ Drake Beef by the Numbers

by STEPHEN GOMEZ-PECK

ECSTATIC AESTHETICS:

DJing and Dancing in Dynamic Time

by MX OOPS

Awich:

A New Era for Japanese Women Rappers

by NORIKO MANABE

Amid Urban Contradictions:

A Dialectical Reflection on the Role of the Rapper as an Organic Intellectual in Rio de Janeiro

by JULIANA CATININ

Hip-hop Started Out in the Heart:

The Evolution of Hip-hop from Extraction to Consumption.

by DONNA-LEE GRANVILLE

Toward Abolitionist Frameworks for Hip-hop Studies

by ELIZABETH NEWTON