He is known for rapping about social issues and global politics with sophisticated rhyme structures and "tongue twisting flows.
"[5] Professor D has released several critically acclaimed albums and published numerous scholarly articles, however following criminal charges related to his time at UW, his professorship was terminated.
In December 2016, Wisconsin legislators Stephen Nass and Dave Murphy asked UW to fire Burchell and cancel his course titled The Problem of Whiteness which the legislators maintain is "adding to the polarization of the races in the state," and which they believed was premised on the idea that white people are racist.
The statute states in part that "No person may ignore, bypass, circumvent, damage, interfere with, or attempt to deceive by fraudulent means, any university authorized security measure or monitoring device."
He was accused of violating of Wisconsin statute 943.20(1)(a) in May 2021, and was subsequently released on a $500 signature bond and ordered to have no unauthorized contact with any UW property.