{"id":75280,"date":"2026-03-30T11:24:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T16:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmojfm.com\/wp\/?p=75280"},"modified":"2026-03-30T11:24:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T16:24:31","slug":"culture-meets-curriculum-at-howard-universitys-new-cardi-b-centered-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmojfm.com\/wp\/2026\/03\/culture-meets-curriculum-at-howard-universitys-new-cardi-b-centered-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Culture meets curriculum at Howard University\u2019s new Cardi B-centered course"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Howard\u2019s new hip hop studies course will explore the music, business, marketing, and cultural impact of Cardi B\u2019s \u201cAm I The Drama?\u201d rollout.<\/p>\n

Cardi B is, in fact, the drama in the best way, and this upcoming fall semester, HBCU students will explore her cultural impact in their lecture hall. In partnership with Warner Music, Howard University has launched its \u201cThe Cardi B: Am I The Drama? The Art, Production, Marketing and Cultural Impact\u201d course.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In an exclusive statement to theGrio, Prof. Jasmine Young, director of the Warner Music Blavatnik Center for Music Business at Howard University, opened up about the course, its impact, and what students can expect to learn.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea for the Cardi B class came to me from a place of purpose and responsibility\u2014to not just talk about real Music Industry Education and Hip Hop, but to activate it. I saw an opportunity to empower my peers, mobilize culture in real time, and build something that reflects the living, breathing energy of the industry,\u201d Prof. Jasmine Young told theGrio. \u201cStudents deserve a proactive, immersive learning environment where the lessons are current, culturally relevant, and rooted in real strategy\u2014not just textbooks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She continued: \u201cThat\u2019s why this groundbreaking course matters right now. At Howard University, we are pushing Hip Hop education to the next level\u2014bridging artistry, business, and cultural impact through the lens of one of the most influential artists of our time. Cardi B is the prototype for Music Business Success.\u201d<\/p>\n

The three-credit course will offer an interdisciplinary experience that bridges music, business, marketing, media, gender studies, production, and cultural theory, while placing the \u201cBodak Yellow\u201d star at the center. The course will specifically focus on the rollout of Cardi B\u2019s highly anticipated second studio album, which came out in November 2025.\u201d However, at the time the Bronx rapper was making headlines for more than just her music as fans speculated about her pregnancy, relationship and court case at the time. \u201cCardi B\u2019s career allows us to critically engage respectability politics, misogynoir, and the policing of Black womanhood, while also recognizing the forms of agency, strategy, and resistance embedded in her success,\u201d Dr. Clark shared with theGrio. \u201cBy situating Cardi B within broader histories of Black feminism and hip hop culture, this course challenges students to rethink what empowerment, authenticity, and visibility look like in contemporary popular culture.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cStudents don\u2019t just study an artist\u2014they analyze and build the machinery behind the work: narrative development, choreography, lighting design, staging, hair, makeup, visual storytelling, and production leadership. Through scholarship, tradecraft, and hands-on training, they gain the skills to think critically and execute professionally, producing work that blends artistic vision, technical design, and business strategy at the highest level,\u201d\u00a0 Prof. Prat added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Beyond it\u2019s trendy subject matter, the university\u2019s decision to invest in a course centering a Black female rapper is particularly notable. Though Syracuse University had a class devoted to Lil Kim\u2019s life in 2004, and Princeton University announced it\u201cMiss-Education: The Women of Hip Hop\u201d course, the existence of courses like this validates not only women\u2019s impact in the male-dominated genre, but also, as Young noted, \u201cvalidates hip hop as both a scholarly discipline and a living, breathing global economy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not your traditional textbook curriculum; this is real-time, culture-driven, industry-informed education that meets students where the music is happening.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Registration for \u201cThe Cardi B: Am I The Drama? The Art, Production, Marketing, and Cultural Impact\u201d course is now open to Howard University students for the fall 2026 semester.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Source: TheGrio<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Howard\u2019s new hip hop studies course will explore the music, business, marketing, and cultural impact of Cardi B\u2019s \u201cAm I The Drama?\u201d rollout. Cardi B is, in fact, the drama in the best way, and this upcoming fall semester, HBCU students will explore her cultural impact in their lecture hall. In partnership with Warner Music, Howard University has launched its \u201cThe Cardi B: Am I The Drama? The Art, Production, Marketing and Cultural Impact\u201d course.\u00a0 … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,371],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feed-content","category-thegrio","infinite-scroll-item","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"auto feed","author_link":"https:\/\/kmojfm.com\/wp\/author\/autofeed\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmojfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmojfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmojfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmojfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmojfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmojfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75383,"href":"https:\/\/kmojfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75280\/revisions\/75383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmojfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmojfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmojfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}