Hip hop scholar and producer extraordinaire 9th Wonder joins Jemele to discuss hip hop as a genius art form, why today’s hip-hop fans have a different relationship with music than first generation fans, and why it was important for him to teach the history of hip-hop at Duke and North Carolina Central. He also shares the remarkable story of how he came to produce “Threat” on Jay-Z’s “The Black Album, and he makes the definitive case for why his fellow homegrown native Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player ever.

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