Aaron J. Thornton/WireImageTuesday, rap lyricist Rapsody received what she calls “one of the highest honors” an artist could receive in their career, especially after her third album, Eve. She received news that album she dubbed “my love letter to all black women” would be the topic of discussion in college classrooms this fall.
Her hometown school, North Carolina’s UNC Chapel Hill, will offer a track-by-track breakdown of the album and readings by Audre Lorde, Angela Davis, Patricia Hill Collins and more. The course will also cover womanist philosophy, hip-hop history and pop culture, headed by Tyler Bunzey, a doctoral student of hip-hop at the school. Professor Simone Drake will head “Toni Morrison‘s Houses of Women and Rapsody’s Eve” course at Ohio State University.
“One of the highest honors is to create art for the culture and have it taught in our educational institutions!” Rapsody wrote on Instagram, sharing a screenshot of the course’s description from both the instructors.
Eve follows the emcee’s Grammy-nominated sophomore album, Laila’s Wisdom, named after one of her strong role models, her grandmother. The 16-song album serves as an ode to black women and hip-hop, with songs titled after iconic black women in history — everyone from “Oprah” [Winfrey], “Michelle” [Obama] and Afeni Shakur, to legendary abolitionist Sojourner Truth and late, great singers Aaliyah and Nina Simone. Queen Latifah hopped on her track “Hatshepsut.”
Rapsody’s Eve is currently available on streaming platforms.
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