Kendrick Lamar‘s legacy and music career will soon be studied at Temple University in a course titled, “Kendrick Lamar and the Morale of M.A.A.D City”.
The course will launch in fall 2025 and will be taught by Timothy Welbeck, an assistant professor in the Department of Africology and African American Studies.
“Kendrick Lamar is one of the defining voices of his generation, and in many ways, both his art and life is reflective of the Black experience in many telling ways,” Welbeck told NBC10, which first shared the news. “Being able to discuss his art in the environment that helps lead him into being the man that he is in a lot of ways can tell you him as an individual, but can also talk about the journey’s towards self-actualization particularly as it is related to the Black experience.”…