Straight outta Cork: Prof’s €2m hip-hop study

It’s more a case of straight outta Cork rather than straight outta Compton, as a music professor from University College Cork has landed a €2m research grant to undertake the world’s first global study of hip-hop music and culture.

Despite his obvious ‘Rapper’s Delight’, Griffith Rollefson doesn’t mean to brag and doesn’t mean to boast, but the award from the European Research Council will butter his toast and fund a five-year project to study hip-hop on six continents.