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Hip Hop meets higher ed in new class at UNF Local rapper Mal Jones will teach the class, part of an effort to promote the school s new Africana Studies major. Author: Anne Schindler Updated: 7:04 PM EST December 30, 2020 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Duval hip hop is the focus of an upcoming class at the University of North Florida, taught by a man who helped define the local hip hop scene, even as he redefined what it means to be a rap musician. Mal Jones is perhaps best known as the host of the Lyricist Live street corner rap sessions that have been a feature of downtown’s monthly Art Walk for a decade. He’s also a poet, a filmmaker, and in 2016, the first rapper ever named a Master Folk Art by the Florida Folklife Council.

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