Resources

Research resources

• Wesleyan academic databases and other open source (some require Wes login id)
• Online bpm calculator
• Most viewed videos of all time (over 450M)
• Most viewed music videos
• acharts (chart summaries in many different countries)
• US Hip Hop links
• Harvard Hip Hop Archive timeline
• discogs.com (for commercial releases)
• 40 maps

Translation

• Rap genius (for explanations of lyrics)

Journals

• Word, Beats and Life: The Global Journal of Hip-Hop Culture
• Global Hip Hop Studies
• Journal of Hip Hop Studies

Blogs

• africanhiphop.com

Early Versions

• “Rapper’s Delight,” Xanadu and Sweet Lady (Jamaica, 1979)
  • Xanadu & Sweet Lady – Rockers Choice (Jamaica, 1979)

• Equipe Rádio Cidade – Bon Tempos (Ano Novo) (Brazil, 1979)

• Rubberen Robbie & Ko – Hallo, Hallo, Hallo (Rapper’s Delight) (The Netherlands, 1979)

• Steve Gordon & The Kosher Five – Take My Rap… Please (US, 1979)

• Miele – Melô Do Tagarela (Rapper’s Delight) (Brazil, 1980)

• “La Cotorra Criollo,” Perucho Conde (Venezuela, 1980), lyrics

• “Hotter Reggae Music,” Welton Irie (Jamaica, 1980)
• GLS-United – Rapper´s Deutsch – 1. deutscher Rap-Song 1980 (Germany, 1980)

• Ronnie – The Way I Feel Rap (Ronnie Ekundayo, Nigeria, 1981)

• Dizzy K. Falola ‎– Saturday Night Raps (Nigeria, 1981)

• Chagrin d’amour – Chacun fait (c’qui lui plaît) (France, 1981); English translation

• Rap Phenomena – Yellow Magic Orchestra (Japan, 1981)

• Fab 5 Freddy – Change The Beat (US, 1982)

  • Beside – Change The Beat (US, 1982)

• “Rap,” Chaz Pik (Russia, 1984)

(also see Darryl Brooks‘ YouTube channel, and playlist 1979/1980 EARLY HISTORY OF RAP ,HIP HOP) 

Articles

• “Getting Real about Global Hip Hop,” Yvonne Bynoe (2002)
• “Why is Global Hip-Hop Better Than ‘Made in America’ Rap Music“? (washingtonpost.com, 6/11/13)
• Music Theory
  • “Aspects of the Music/Text Relationship” (Adams, 2008)
    • “Response to Adams” (Williams, 2009)
  • “On the Metrical Techniques of Flow” (Adams, 2009)
• The/An Ethnomusicologist and the Record Business (Hugo Zemp, Yearbook for Traditional Music, 1996)

Competitions

• DMC World DJ Championships
• World Breaking Classic World Final 2022

Miscellaneous

• The Pudding
  • The Largest Vocabulary in Hip Hop (The Pudding)
  • The Language of Hip Hop (The Pudding, 2017)
  • The Most Successful Labels in Hip Hop (The Pudding, 2017)
• In the Moment: Poetry Duels and Improvisation (2022) (folkstreams.net)