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The evolution of rap music
The Evolution of Rap Music
Born in 1958 in Detroit, Dyson’s father was an autoworker and his mother, a paraprofessional in the City schools. A voracious reader, Dyson devoured the European classics while securing his links with black culture in part through the music of Motown musicians. Dyson graduated from high school in 1976 and at the same time became a teenage father, and for a time he was on welfare. With the assistance of his church pastor, Dyson became a Baptist minister and attended divinity school in Tennessee. By 1982 he had earned a bachelor’s degree with high honors, and three years later accepted a graduate fellowship at Prin...
The Evolution of Rap Music
Born in 1958 in Detroit, Dyson’s father was an autoworker and his mother, a paraprofessional in the City schools. A voracious reader, Dyson devoured the European classics while securing his links with black culture in part through the music of Motown musicians. Dyson graduated from high school in 1976 and at the same time became a teenage father, and for a time he was on welfare. With the assistance of his church pastor, Dyson became a Baptist minister and attended divinity school in Tennessee. By 1982 he had earned a bachelor’s degree with high honors, and three years later accepted a graduate fellowship at Prin...
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