Being Dope: Hip Hop and Theory Through Mixtape Memoir

Author/Contributor(s):	Carson, A D
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Date:	12/10/2025
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Being Dope is a book that will challenge what you think you know about rap and rappers. Written in lyrics, prose, and poetry, this book presents cultural criticism and analyzes form through the lenses of the social, historical, academic, and personal. It aims to disrupt the colonization of hip hop by academia and situate rappers and other hip hop artists as the makers of knowledge that academics and general audiences should study rather than reduce to tired tropes and stereotypes. Being Dope is not about hip hop; it is a book that uses hip hop to help make sense of the world that created it and continues to do so after more than five decades.