HIP HOP AND PEABODY HIP HOP AND PEABODY. TRUST ME, ACTUALLY TRUST HIM. BALTIMORE HIP HOP ROYALTY PROFESSOR WENDELL PATRICK, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I NOT ONLY HAVE BELIEVED IN, YOU KNOW, SINCE I WAS A KID, BASICALLY. BUT IT’S BEEN ONE OF MY FOREMOST FRAMING TEACHERS IN LIFE. PATRICK IS A MUSICIAN IN EVERY SENSE, A COMPOSER, PRODUCER, BEAT MAKER, PIANIST, AND NOW LEADS PEABODY INSTITUTE’S BACHELOR OF MUSIC IN HIP HOP PROGRAM AND CHECK THIS OUT. THE POWER OF HIP HOP FOR ONE IS IS UNDENIABLE. AT THIS POINT. THE PRESENCE IS UNDENIABLE. AND WITH THAT, PEABODY, THE COUNTRY’S FIRST CONSERVATORY IS OFFERING A FIRST OF ITS KIND PROGRAM. IT SHOULD BE STUDIED. IT SHOULD BE IN INSTITUTIONS. BUT AT A PLACE LIKE PEABODY, NOT ONLY CAN IT BE STUDIED, BUT IT’S THERE’S A PRACTICAL ELEMENT WITH HIGHLY SKILLED STUDENTS, HIGHLY SKILLED MUSICIANS, AND HIGHLY SKILLED PRACTITIONERS THAT ARE GOING TO BE TEACHING. YES, TEACHING ON THE TURNTABLES, BUT THAT’S JUST, WELL, SCRATCHING THE SURFACE. BUT IT’S VITAL. I THINK HAVING A HANDS ON EXPERIENCE WHERE YOU GET TO ACTUALLY DO THESE THINGS, YOU GET TO MAKE BEATS IN DIFFERENT WAYS USING SAMPLERS, USING SOFTWARE IS I MEAN, THAT’S HOW I LEARNED, YOU KNOW, AND I THINK THAT’S A REALLY GREAT WAY TO PASS ON THIS INFORMATION. AND ALONG WITH TURNTABLE RAPPING AND PRODUCING A BASE OF KNOWLEDGE AND CULTURE AND THE BIRTH OF HIP HOP AND BUSINESS AND CAREER SKILLS NEEDED FOR SUCCESS. OH, AND DID I MENTION GRAMMY WINNING RAPPER, SONGWRITER AND RECORD PRODUCER LUPE FIASCO IS A PROFESSOR AS AN MC. HE’S ONE OF THE FINEST TO EVER DO IT. HE IS VERY, VERY KEEN. I THINK ON THE STUDY OF THIS CRAFT AND THIS ART, AND THE WAY THAT HE IS ABLE TO SHARE HIS IDEAS IS PHENOMENAL, AND I COULDN’T BE HAPPIER TO HAVE. IN THE SAME WAY, PEABODY IS HAPPY TO FIL
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Johns Hopkins’ Peabody Institute offers music degree focused on hip-hop
Updated: 5:52 PM EST Feb 24, 2025
Strings, brass and percussion are at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, but now, there’s a new member to the musical family: Turntables.Hip-hop is making a major step in Baltimore’s classical home for musicians, and they’ve found just the right Baltimorean to bring this mixtape of talent to their halls.The institute turned to Baltimore hip-hop royalty, Wendel Patrick, the director of hip-hop studies at the Johns Hopkins University Peabody Conservatory of Music.”This is something that I not only have believed in, you know, since I was a kid, basically, but it’s been one of my foremost framing teachers in life,” Patrick told 11 News. Patrick is a musician in every sense — a composer, producer, beatmaker and pianist — who now leads the Peabody Institute’s Bachelor of Music in Hip-Hop program.”The power of hip-hop is undeniable at this point. The presence is undeniable,” Patrick told 11 News. With that, Peabody, the country’s first conservatory, is offering a first-of-its-kind program.”It should be studied. It should be an institution, but at a place like Peabody, not only can it be studied, but there is a practical element with highly skilled students, highly skilled musicians, and highly skilled practitioners that are going to be teaching,” Patrick told 11 News. Teaching students on the turntables is just scratching the surface, but it is vital.”I think having a hands-on experience where you get to actually do these things, you get to make beats in different ways using samplers using software is, I mean, that’s how I learned, you know? And, I think that’s a really great way to pass on this information,” Patrick told 11 News. Along with turntables, rapping and producing, the program teaches a base of knowledge in culture, the birth of hip-hop and business and career skills needed for success. The program has also tapped Grammy-winning rapper, songwriter and record producer Lupe Fiasco as a professor.”As an emcee, he’s one of the finest to ever do it. He is very keen, I think, on the study of this craft and this art, and the way that he’s able to share his ideas is phenomenal. I couldn’t be happier to have him,” Patrick told 11 News.In the same way, the Peabody Institute is happy to fill its halls with the new sounds of hip-hop.
Strings, brass and percussion are at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, but now, there’s a new member to the musical family: Turntables.
Hip-hop is making a major step in Baltimore’s classical home for musicians, and they’ve found just the right Baltimorean to bring this mixtape of talent to their halls.
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The institute turned to Baltimore hip-hop royalty, Wendel Patrick, the director of hip-hop studies at the Johns Hopkins University Peabody Conservatory of Music.
“This is something that I not only have believed in, you know, since I was a kid, basically, but it’s been one of my foremost framing teachers in life,” Patrick told 11 News.
Patrick is a musician in every sense — a composer, producer, beatmaker and pianist — who now leads the Peabody Institute’s Bachelor of Music in Hip-Hop program.
“The power of hip-hop is undeniable at this point. The presence is undeniable,” Patrick told 11 News.
With that, Peabody, the country’s first conservatory, is offering a first-of-its-kind program.
“It should be studied. It should be an institution, but at a place like Peabody, not only can it be studied, but there is a practical element with highly skilled students, highly skilled musicians, and highly skilled practitioners that are going to be teaching,” Patrick told 11 News.
Teaching students on the turntables is just scratching the surface, but it is vital.
“I think having a hands-on experience where you get to actually do these things, you get to make beats in different ways using samplers using software is, I mean, that’s how I learned, you know? And, I think that’s a really great way to pass on this information,” Patrick told 11 News.
Along with turntables, rapping and producing, the program teaches a base of knowledge in culture, the birth of hip-hop and business and career skills needed for success. The program has also tapped Grammy-winning rapper, songwriter and record producer Lupe Fiasco as a professor.
“As an emcee, he’s one of the finest to ever do it. He is very keen, I think, on the study of this craft and this art, and the way that he’s able to share his ideas is phenomenal. I couldn’t be happier to have him,” Patrick told 11 News.
In the same way, the Peabody Institute is happy to fill its halls with the new sounds of hip-hop.
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