It's a Brian Lair show music history special on this August 11th, consider the 50th anniversary

of the day hip hop was born in the Bronx as we do some music, some conversation, some

of your oral history calls to 1, 2, 4, 3, 3, WNYC bringing us into this segment there

was the Atlanta-based duo outcast wrapping some of their southern pride in their 1994

classic southern playlist at Cadillac music and appropriately with me now is Joyce

Lynn Wilson professor of hip hop studies and digital media at Georgia Tech University

unlike some of the Bronx born people we're all hearing from today she was born in Alabama

grew up in Atlanta and so brings a little different life experience to her scholarship

in addition to being a woman who studies what is often seen as a largely male art form

professor Wilson thanks for giving us some time today happy August 11th and welcome to WNYC

yeah hip hop array thank you for having me it's really exciting to be here and I enjoyed

that introduction thank you thank you I enjoyed that little turn of phrase there hip hop

hooray we'll talk about we'll talk about the music of course and it's place in American

history and today but would you introduce yourself a little to our listeners first I see

you grew up in a family of educators so what did they do and where was that for you mostly

as a kid oh so yes my mother is a retired school teacher social studies and physical education

teacher from the Atlanta public schools I come from a family of educators whether that's daycare

centers or just keeping kids so I've been around women and you know them teaching and educating

for a while I my family moved to Atlanta in the early 70s along with the many African Americans

who were migrating to Atlanta during that time and so I grew up around a very fortunate in a very

fortunate situation in the sense that I grew up around a lot of black excellence I grew up around

civil rights legends and in the home of the civil rights one of the civil rights biggest civil

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