It is used as an opportunity to approach hip-hop music as a social, cultural, political and creative expression. Peters, who is in his 33rd year of teaching, grew up attending segregated schools in West Virginia. My background is in literature. I always taught using songs. He feels that a lot of young people write rhymes more than they write short stories in the 1990s.
Peters appreciates and delves into artists with cultural meaning.
After the political renaissance in the 1960s and poets like H. Rap Brown subsided, conscious music had died until the new political lyricists of the 1980s. From this period they study the messages of groups like KRS1, Public Enemy, Kool Moe Dee and Gang Starr. It has gone worldwide, and the second biggest market after the United States is France. AAS 279 embraces international artists. U-Roy ,a Jamaican disc jockey who hit big in 1970, also covered Bob Marley hits.