in 2010, he completed recording with the cornel west theory, a hip hop band endorsed by west. he has also released two hip-hop/soul/spoken word albums, one under "cornel west" (entitled street knowledge), the other under "cornel west &amp; b.m.w.m.b." (entitled never forget: a journey of revelations). both works are musical expressions of west's personal politics and beliefs which he has enunciated in his previous written works.