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January 13
Welcome to the First week!

I. Welcome Back!
In the Chat: Say hello... your major/minor... your favorite class here at TCU so far... and a little bit of why!
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II. More Q&A on the Syllabus
Oh, oh, Zoom, I'd like to fly far away from here/ 
Where my mind, oh Lord, is fresh and clear
And I'd find the love that I long to see/ 
Where everybody can be what they wanna be
III.Introduction to the Hype Presentation Format and Point-Spread
IV. Next Week's Focus & Homework: "Rap Music as an Extension of the Black Rhetorical Tradition" (due Thursday)
  • You will need to read the syllabus and then direct yourself to the corresponding tabs on the website.  
​IV. TODAY'S HYPE: 
"Joey Bada$$: A Bada$$ Black/Hip Hop Rhetoric" by Angel Guyton
  • Presentation (Carmen's Version) and Discussion based on Guyton's questions
  • Q&A on the assignment
  • Demo on Google Slides: background, boxing out, animations, embedding

Angel's Discussion points
How is calling himself Joey Bada$$ already an example of Black Rhetoric?

In the first video I showed y'all, “Land Of The Free,” why do you think Joey BadA$$ had the kkk members disguised as police officers, judges, and priests? What is he trying to convey?

Do you think it’s important for artists to speak on current, social issues, especially racial discrimination? Why or why not?

What are some issues going on in today's society you wish artist would talk more about through their music?
Black Rhetorical Continuities:
​"Ego-Trippin... There Might Be a Reason Why" and Its Remix

Part 1: The 1970s-80s

Feel free to turn off your camera & mic and read these lyrics as you listen.  Click here for the annotated lyrics on genius.com.

Giovanni's many sources of inspiration include: 
  • Her then-recent 1972 trip to Africa;
  • the words/history of enslaved Black women like Sojourner Truth,
  • and the popular Black song of the moment--- "I Can't Get Next To You" by the Temptations
The poem was recorded and sold as a record.

Part 2: The 1990s

Featured on the show "A Different World" about college students at an HBCU as the students, especially the Black women students, come to grips with the negative stereotypes of the Mammy image.

Watch the way "Kim" sheds the negative past and ends by adorning herself in a positive African past and new future.  Feel free to turn off your camera & mic and read these lyrics as you listen. ​

This episode is called "Mammy Dearest."  You can watch the entire episode below on your own (this is optional). 

Part 3: The 2000s

Jill Scott's 2007 "Hate on Me"
Click here for lyrics

Feel free to turn off your camera & mic and read these lyrics as you listen. 

YOUr TASK/
Note-Taking
(if time)
  1. What specific lines or other connections do you make between Nikki Giovanni, "A Different World," and Jill Scott?  Why?​
  2. Why do you think Giovanni's poem has such resonance?  Why do Black women especially keep re-mixing it?
  3. How would you explain rhetorical continuities in your own words?  What is it doing? Why?