The Sunday Story: The unspoken rules of hip-hopNPR
The disbelief and disrespect Megan Thee Stallion suffered at the hands of the culture after being shot by Tory Lanez proved one of the rules of misogyny and racism within hip-hop: Being exceptional doesn’t make you the exception.
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In this episode of The Sunday Story from Up First, Sidney Madden and Rodney Carmichael, the co-hosts of the podcast Louder Than A Riot, help us understand and unpack the oppressive, unspoken rules of rap that they say have held the entire culture back.
The audio portion of this episode was produced by Audrey Nguyen, with engineering support from Stacey Abbott. It was edited by Jennifer Schmidt.