The purpose of the symposium is to explore ways to enhance the academic course offerings at Howard University by including courses that focus on hip-hop. The symposium will begin a discussion and, hopefully, lead to the creation of hip-hop related courses at Howard University where we could serve as a model for other Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in hip-hop related course offerings. Howard could become the first research university to offer a body of courses and a minor in hip-hop from multi- and interdisciplinary perspectives including an analysis of problems and solutions among youth. The reason we are focusing on the topic of hip-hop academic course offerings is because hip-hop is one of the main voices and cultural lifestyle bases for many of today's black youth—children, adolescents, and young adults.