... and the commercial and “white” indie rock with futurity and the experimental. Such a critical bifurcation is revealed through a close reading of Pitchfork’s reception of the artist most representative of “indie rap:” Kanye West. This essay shows how Pitchfork understood West as needing to appropriate “European...

...; films on hip hop and the university, especially Method Man and Redman’s 2001 How High ; and the rap oeuvres of Kanye West and J. Cole—this article examines the ways in which the epistemologies of hip hop and the university interact and conflict. By examining these texts, I show that academic...