| Sumario: | The article proposes an alternative invention strategy for research-based argumentative writing. By investigating the coincidental usage of the term "whatever" in hip-hop, theory; and composition studies, the article proposes a whatever-pedagogy identified as "hip-hop pedagogy." Sampling is the hip-hop process of saving snippets of prerecorded music and sound into a computer memory. These sounds become cut from their original source and pasted into a new composition. Whatever is available to composers often includes television shows, political speeches, past musical recordings of a variety of genres, or any sound at all. Through the complex juxtaposition of these isolated sounds, samplers construct new forms of meaning. The "whatever" principle of sampling extends into general discourse. Whatever is best understood as a popular, everyday term used heavily by youth culture when an experience or reaction can't be named. The response, "whatever," evokes not so much a lack of response but either a sense that something has eluded the meaning of the response or of defiance, dismissal, and opposition.
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