Confessions of a Great Grandfather: Growing Up to Rap and Hip-Hop.

The article details William H. Turner's initial rejection of hip-hop—viewed as glorifying drugs, violence, misogyny, and stereotypes antithetical to his "credit to the race" values as a Black Appalachian professor born in 1946 Harlan County, KY—despite his own family's diverse musical tastes from boogie-woogie to country. Topics include revelation linking hip-hop to spirituals, blues, and jazz via scholars like Dyson and West.