Rapsody’s ‘EVE’ Album Inspires College Course

Rapsody’s EVE album is considered one of the best Hip Hop collections of 2019. It was so good that it inspired educational courses at two universities.

Tyler Bunzey, a Doctoral student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, says the North Carolina rapper’s album, which he references as a “love letter to all Black women,” will be the center of his upcoming course.

“I’m incredibly pleased to announce that I will be teaching a course at UNC this fall on Rapsody’s magnificent album EVE,” Bunzey wrote. “We will be examining the album track by track with readings and media to accompany each record.”

The course will take a “look at hip-hop’s historical development to engage with albums from female-identifying hip-hoppers throughout the genre’s history,” as per the description.

“Using critical reading and listening skills, students will present original research on hip-hop history, Black womanist criticism, and critical theory,” the course description continues.

Revolt also reports that her third studio album inspired an upcoming course at Ohio State University instructed by Simone Drake.

The course is called “Toni Morrison’s Houses of Women and Rapsody’s EVE,” and will examine the late Morrison’s work and EVE as “physical spaces in which Black women disrupt, interrupt, and erupt into societies who conceive of Black women in ways that are both limited and limiting.”

Rapsody is honored to have her work apart of higher education courses. “One of the highest honors is to create art for the culture and have it taught in our educational institutions! Thank you [Tyler Bunzey] at [University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill] and Simone Drake at [The Ohio State University].”