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Hip-hop offers opportunities to rethink citation and argument. Hip-hop's melding with digital media means that students and scholars alike must keep abreast of citation style changes and continually investigate what counts as evidence in the classroom and scholarly writing. While many students and scholars understand that new forms of citation are not only embraced by most common U.S. citation styles, some educators still teach, in high school and college, that various digital publications are unacceptable in academic writing. In keeping with the advances of sonic studies, popular culture studies, and continued growth and maturation of musicilogy, we must think critically about how to incorprate hip-hop into academic work in order to both advance scholarship and our udnerstanding of evidence, argument, and writing. This involves consider the ways in which popular culture, namely hip-hop, can help students learn about notions of truth and evidence, along with accepting digital resources as appropriate evidence in schoarly writing. Further, hip-hop's ready use of wordplay encourages constant critical inquiry into issues of truthfulness, authenticity, and evidence. Thus, hip-hop offers exciting opportunities to investigate citation and argument in the classroom and academic writing, even as hip-hop remains open to critique.

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