Explore Virginia Hip Hop History

Learn about William & Mary’s Hip Hop Collection with Jay Gaidmore, Director of Special Collections in Earl Gregg Swem Library. The collection includes oral histories committed to preserving and documenting Virginia’s rich Hip Hop past, as well as recordings of Hip Hop music, publications, and ephemera created by Virginia and Virginia-based artists, collectives, and businesses from the 1980s to the present.