IT'S common practice for an undergraduate literature major to have her face blown off by some facet of post colonial theory. My face exploder was Grant Farred’s “What's my name: Black Vernacular Intellectuals”, which characterised Muhammad Ali, Bob Marley, C.L.R. James and Stuart Hall as "vernacular intellectuals", who used their art as a platform for criticism and discourse. Though it turns out post-colonial theory doesn’t pay rent, that giddy comp-lit excitement feels very relevant once again now that we have "The Anthology of Rap”, edited by Adam Bradley and Adam Dubois.

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