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University Unveils Course on Kendrick Lamar and the Black Experience

Kendrick Lamar's monumental career and its cultural impact will soon be a topic of discussion and study at Temple University.

A course titled, “Kendrick Lamar and the Morale of M.A.A.D City,” will be available to all students during the Fall 2025 semester, with Timothy Welbeck, a professor for the Department of Africology and African American Studies and the Director for the Center for Anti-Racism at Temple University, at the helm. “Being able to discuss his art in the environment that helps lead him into being the man that he is in a lot of ways can tell you him as an individual, but can also talk about the journey’s towards self-actualization particularly as it is related to the Black experience.” Welbeck’s course will no doubt touch on the rapper’s many accomplishments, but he also hopes students will gain a “a deeper appreciation for Lamar, hip-hop culture and how art is a muse in which to convey the components of the Black experiences.”

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