{"id":1247,"date":"2017-11-07T20:57:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T01:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2017-11-07T20:59:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T01:59:30","slug":"mad-skillz-returns-to-u-of-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/2017\/11\/07\/mad-skillz-returns-to-u-of-r\/","title":{"rendered":"Mad Skillz and U of R"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rapper Mad Skillz to be artist in residence at University of Richmond<\/h1>\n
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I am very excited to announce that Richmond hip hop artist Donnie Lewis (aka Mad Skillz) will be joining the University as an Artist-in-Residence with the School of Professional and Continuing Studies (SPCS).\u00a0 Skillz is widely recognized for putting Richmond on the hip hop map–he’s worked with heavyweights such as Jay-Z, Dr. Dre, Nas, Timbaland, Will Smith, Missy Elliot, Cee Lo, and many others.\u00a0 As it turns out, he got his start–and his rap monicker–while rapping at the University’s radio station a couple of decades ago.<\/p>\n

This spring, he and I will be teaching a course called “The Voice of Hip Hop in America.”\u00a0 It will be open to a limited number of students from Arts & Sciences, and fully open to the University’s evening students.\u00a0 We will have some surprises in store for these students…<\/p>\n

For more on Mad Skillz’ role at the University, here’s a recent piece <\/a>in the\u00a0Richmond Times Dispatch<\/em>.\u00a0 Expect more media attention in the coming weeks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rapper Mad Skillz to be artist in residence at University of Richmond I am very excited to announce that Richmond hip hop artist Donnie Lewis (aka Mad Skillz) will be joining the University as an Artist-in-Residence with the School of Professional and Continuing Studies (SPCS).\u00a0 Skillz is widely recognized for putting Richmond on the hip … Continue reading Mad Skillz and U of R<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}