Syracuse U: Gettin’ Dizzy In The Hizzy

Fo’ shizzy. Word.

FrontPageMag.com reports: “In the fall of 2004, Greg Thomas, the professor of English at Syracuse University, drew his texts, not from Chaucer or Dickens, but the profanity-laden lyrics of Billboard magazine’s rap charts: Thomas introduced a new course devoted to the study of “gangasta” rap starlet Lil’ Kim (Kimberly Jones). Accordingly, Thomas’s for-credit course, offered through the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse, was titled “Hip-Hop Eshu: Queen Bitch 101—The Life and Times of Lil’ Kim.”

Who needs Shakespeare? Yo. For the purpose of “higher” education, the course explores some very obscene rap lyrics. (FPM includes excerpts)

Who says our nation’s schools are failing to educate? Talkin’ diversity, dawg.

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