Article Group

I decided to join the Hip-hop and Literacy group because I wanted to read about how the music world influences the literacy world. What I learned from some of the articles and videos were really interesting. Rapping is like writing a poem; they both show a meaningful deep message that is under the surface even though rapping does not count as academic. Another interesting fact that I never thought about the similarity of memorizing lyrics to a song compared with memorizing a quotes from poems and stories. It is the same thing and in fact, it is a lot easier to memorize lyrics to a song. All of these facts makes me wonder to myself of who gets to decide what is academic and what is not and why? Why do some things count as academics and others don’t?