by Charles Mudede • Feb 25, 2021 at 4:45 pm
Class is now in session with Dr. Daudi Abe.. Courtesy Daudi Abe
Before MOHAI s Legacy of Seattle Hiphop exhibit opened and did its best to mock my contributions to local hiphop journalism, I worked closely with Dr. Daudi Abe, Seattle s only certified hiphop scholar (he lectures at Seattle College), and Larry Mizell, former
Stranger columnist and current KEXP DJ, to build a body of knowledge that could explain and locate the emergence of Seattle hiphop in the early 1980s and to describe its path to the point at which it stood in the middle of the previous decade.