Background
Hemphill grew up in New York City, in the Lower East Side neighborhood.
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Hemphill grew up in New York City, in the Lower East Side neighborhood.
He graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School with a Regents diploma concentration in Electrical Engineering. Hemphill graduated from Morehouse College with a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish.
He has a certificate in Strategic Planning from Miami Ad School. He has a master"s degree in Communications Design which he received from Pratt Institute. Hip Hop Word Count database
Hemphill created an ethnographic database of hip hop lyrics covering the period from 1979 to the present.
In the database, assets are geotagged and dated according to album release dates.
Hemphill calls this data a geography of language in the universe of hip hop. Hemphill faceted the information with analysis of word count, number of syllables per word, number of letters per word, polysyllabic words, as well as an education and audience reading level rating.
Hemphill used Simplified Measure of Gobbledygook ("SMOG") and Flesch–Kincaid readability tests (created by plain English advocate Rudolf Flesch) to evaluate reading levels. 2010-2011: Artist-in-Residence, Eyebeam
2012: Grantee, Creative Capital
2012-2013: Fellow, WEB Du Bois Institute at Harvard University
2013: Fellow, The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University
2015: American Institute of Management Program participant, Bronx Museum of the Arts
1999: "Black New York Photographers of the Twentieth Century." Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
2002: "Queens International Biennial." Queens Museum of Art
2002: Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques
2011: "Talk to Maine." Museum of Modern Artist
July 24, 2011 - November 07, 2011
2012: "The Box That Rocks: 30 Years of Video Music Box and the Rise of Hip Hop Music & Culture." Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts.
March 10 - May 28, 2012.