Archive for January, 2022


𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝟗𝐭𝐡 𝐖𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 In addition to his active role in the music business, Patrick Douthit — better known as 9th Wonder — teaches regularly at Duke and N.C. Central, and has also served as a visiting professor at Harvard University’s Hip-Hop Archive. At Duke, he teaches three courses: hip-hop production, black popular culture, and history of hip-hop. He co-teaches the latter course with Mark Anthony Neal, the James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African and African American Studies who chairs Duke’s highly-ranked Department of African & African American studies. Douthit is an atypical university presence. A Grammy-winning producer, he has worked with Kendrick Lamar, Drake, Destiny’s Child, Jay-Z, Erykah Badu, Mary J. Blige, and many other big names in music. He produced the final track on Lamar’s Pulitzer Prize-winning album in 2017 and was inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame in October 2019. 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐃𝐮𝐤𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 A private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, Duke University is known as one of the world’s leading institutions for education, research, and patient care.