“As a guy who got a PhD by rapping and works as a professor of hip-hop, the Olympic breakdancer is proof of the point I intend to make about hip-hop in academia, and notions of sanctioning and validating culture and cultural products. 🧵 1/7 “I was not intent on becoming a ‘hip-hop scholar’ when I started working on my PhD, and I don’t think that I have. I rap. I’m a scholar. I didn’t go to graduate school to learn how to rap. I didn’t go to learn how to think, either. That’s how the tired cliché goes. I went to 2/7