Winston-Salem–born music producer and turntablist supreme Patrick Douthit (aka 9th Wonder), whose musical collaborators range from Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige to Drake, Kendrick Lamar, and Mac Miller, is leaving North Carolina for Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he’s been given Harvard University’s first Hip-Hop Fellowship, an opportunity to build on the hip-hop scholarship he began in courses taught at Duke and North Carolina Central University. As 9th Wonder makes the leap to join the ranks of Harvard’s W. E. B. Du Bois Institute, home to the national Hiphop Archives, he faces the challenges of developing a deeper yet more presentable understanding of sampling and production in hip-hop. Listen in as he flips the record, places the needle on the vinyl, and delivers the word on what it means to harvest and catalog the richness of R&B break beats from the likes of Al Green and Curtis Mayfield.  DS