The 1963 Hip-Hop Machine: Hip–Hop Pedagogy As Composition

This essay proposes an alternative invention strategy for research–based argumentative writing. By investigating the coincidental usage of the term “whatever” in hip–hop, theory, and composition studies, the essay proposes a whatever-pedagogy identified as “hip–hop pedagogy,” a writing practice that models itself after digital sampling’s rhetorical strategy of juxtaposition.