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Hutchins Center for African & African American Research

2024-2025 Nasir Jones Hiphop Fellows

Harry Allen

Hypertext (’16-17); harbanger (’24-’25)

Kevin Holt

I Bet You Won’t Get Crunk! The Performative Resistance of Atlanta Hip-Hop Party Music

James McNally

Long Island Rap Renaissance

Recent News

Harvard Gazette – 11/02/2023

‘We had to create something new — and we did’

Harvard Gazette – 04/05/2023

Legend of rap hears kinship with Dickinson

Vibe – 04/05/2023

Flavor Flav Visits Harvard, Donates Clock Chain To University’s Hiphop Archive

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Records in the Hiphop Archive

Harvard Recognizes Hiphop Classics

The Loeb Library at Harvard University, in collaboration with the Hiphop Archive and Research Institute, is archiving the most influential hiphop albums.

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Previously at the Hutchins Center’s Cooper Gallery

Afrika Islam and Ice T stand together looking seriously into the camera. Afrika is wearing a white baseball cap with an alien on it and a sweatshirt for Zulu Nation with a raised fist in the center of Africa. Ice T wears a black sweatshirt for Zulu Nation with a small Africa logo and a backwards black baseball hat.

Day One DNA: 50 Years in Hiphop Culture

from the private collection of Ice T & DJ Afrika Islam

Curated by Laylah Amatullah Barrayn

On view from November 3, 2023, to May 31, 2024

Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art at the Hutchins Center, 102 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02138