Students at a university in Montreal, Canada will soon be given the opportunity to take an academic course on an individual basis Dave Chappelle.
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Course content includes watching the comedian’s specials
Yassin “Narcy” Alsalman — a rapper and Concordia University professor — shared the news during an online sit-in Jibber with Jaber podcast.
While the Team Chappelle course is ongoing, Alsalman is actively working on the curriculum. He also notes that the course will be celebrated around the upcoming 50th anniversary of hip-hop in August.
“I’m writing my syllabus right now, and from what Dave and the community around him have given me, I’m going to celebrate this, sort of, on the 50th anniversary of hip-hop as a community.”
Alsalman added that the course will include the following Chappelle’s showalong with “some of his specials”.
Yassin “Narcy” Alsalman defends Dave Chappelle: “His personality has been distorted”
In return host Ahman Jaber said jokingly that the teacher had to “Boycott Netflix” although he answered “NO. Absolutely not.”
Shortly thereafter, Alsalman spoke about how he felt Chappelle’s “personality involved.”
“I think a lot of his personality is convoluted. He’s a comedian. As you know him, that’s not what people have portrayed him to be. He made fun of black people; he made fun of white people.”
He noted that this was regardless of how people viewed the comedian controversieshe will “celebrate Dave”.
“I’m going to celebrate Dave and the community around him and the work he’s done for us as a generation and what he’s done for us.”
Alsalman concluded by teasing that the students “may” get a chance to even meet Chappelle.
“Maybe Dave will come, maybe not. But that’s not really why I do it. I do it more to thank him and celebrate him and really make history.”
Alsalman has taught courses on Kanye West and Kendrick Lamar
It’s important to note that Alsalman is definitely no stranger to teaching classes on notable black celebrities.
Last year he went viral after it was revealed he would be teaching a class KanyeWest (also known as Her).
Now the cats are out of the bag. I teach Canada’s first Kanye class at Concordia University (@CU_FineArts) this autumn @KanyeWest @KanyePodcast @PhotosOfKanye @KanyeUpdated @DONDA_CREATIVE @TeamKanyeDaily Contact me for details! pic.twitter.com/7wxvKB3Ab7
— IRAQAFELLA / NARCY / ILLUMINARCY / ZAZA HADID (@TheNarcicyst) March 12, 2022
KANYE? WEST? HER?
CONCORDIA?? pic.twitter.com/5QxAlY8wGQ– annie (@athuyanx) March 11, 2022
In addition, he taught a class Kendrick Lamar and plans to teach more courses on such subjects Dark Star, The rootsAnd Erykah Badu.
We should also point out that another Canadian institution – Ryerson University in Toronto – also offered a course on local artists drake And the weekendas The Shadow Room reported.
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