Celebrating Hip-Hop’s 50th Anniversary With Professor A.D. Carson

A.D. Carson has been in high demand this summer. Hip-hop’s 50th anniversary is Friday and media outlets ranging from Vanity Fair to NPR to Rolling Stone have asked Carson, the University of Virginia’s associate professor of hip-hop and the global South, to weigh in on the genre’s evolution and importance. He has academic and practical expertise as a scholar of the genre and as a rapper himself.