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Ronan Hatfull

“I’m Jay-Z on a bad day, Shakespeare on my worst days”: When rappers cite Shakespeare
Shakespeare and Beyond

“I’m Jay-Z on a bad day, Shakespeare on my worst days”: When rappers cite Shakespeare

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Ronan Hatfull

The conversation around Shakespeare and hip-hop to date has tended to focus on either their linguistic malleability or the racial politics which surround the enmeshment of an originally African-American cultural movement with the work of a white playwright who, in…