Hip-hop Professor Who Rapped His Dissertation Has Now Released First Ever Peer-reviewed Album

For rap artist and a professor of hip-hop AD Carson, using music as a serious platform is not something new. A former doctoral student of Clemson University in South Carolina, Carson has previously smashed stereotypes for presenting his dissertation in the form of a 34-track rap album titled “Owning My Masters: The Rhetorics of Rhymes and Revolutions.” His research included topics such as justice, economics, language, identity, history and citizenship and took Carson three years to produce it, Carson wrote for The Conversation. “The album is embedded of you haven’t had a chance to listen yet 🎧”https://t.co/CsUtlb7S00— A.D. Carson March 15, 2021 Carson’s dissertation was the first of its kind as part of the university’s rhetorics, communication, and information design program. Chenjerai Kumanyika, one of Carson’s professors and supervisor who is also a former Hip-Hop musician helped him with the process by helping him with the academic research for the dissertation, Clemson News said. Putting together a small music studio in his apartment near the Clemson campus, Carson used the basic Adobe recording software provided by the college to finish his album.