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A.D. Carson
@aydeethegreat.bsky.social
Fictional character | Emcee | PhD | Professor of Hip-Hop | https://msha.ke/aydeethegreat
October 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM
August 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM
“An essay about my collaboration with the Charlottesville Symphony, Making “& metaphors,” is linked here. You can also watch the full performance on the UVA Arts web page” arts.virginia.edu/stories/maki...
July 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
“Built a new studio. Recorded a new album. New book coming soon. Listen for now.” aydeethegreat.bandcamp.com/album/for-im...
June 2, 2025 at 2:45 PM
May 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
“Office Hours about the movie SINNERS. Kindly wait to watch this video until you’ve watched the film. 😬 Here, I’m talking about hospitality, invitations, and exploitation here, but there’s much more to be discussed.”
April 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
“About hip-hop, media platforms, documentation, and resistance. I published an essay with @theconversation.com based on one of my earlier office hours videos and it bears repeating. Spread the word. Tag folks you think should be engaging in this discussion. Link to the essay in the comments.✌🏾”
April 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM
April 7, 2025 at 1:31 PM
“February 24, 2017, I defended my dissertation at @clemsonuniversity. Last week, I celebrated the official release of the album I submitted as my thesis project. Read more about the project and the process here: dailyprogress.com/life-enterta... & listen to the album wherever you get your music.”
February 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
“You can read in @cvilleweekly more about the new album release and the listening event this weekend at UVA. ✌🏾”

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February 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
“I’m always going on and on about genre and the hold it has on us. It’s not just about music or books…it’s for sure about people. When I wrote my dissertation, it HAD to be an album — a rap album — to insist that folks (and my committee) contend with how genre communicates and what it communicates”
February 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
February 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
“First things first, congratulations to Lupe Fiasco and the Peabody Institute on the new hip-hop bachelor degree program and teaching rap at Johns Hopkins! This is an undeniably important achievement, and they should be commended for it 👏🏾🫡🎉
January 11, 2025 at 9:12 PM
“Here we go again.”
January 5, 2025 at 8:41 PM
November 10, 2024 at 3:10 PM