Exploring the problematic behavior of male hip-hop artists and the need for change in the genre, with a hope for a more inclusive future. Also, a shoutout to 'Ode to Hip Hop' and acknowledgement of the hosts and production team.
So much of the coverage of hip-hop’s 50th birthday has been congratulatory, in spite of its record of misogyny and anti-LGBTQ sentiment. In this episode of Into It, host Sam Sanders talks to journalist Kiana Fitzgerald about how the women of hip-hop are leading the way today, and he catches up with hip-hop scholar Jason England, who argues hip-hop's midlife crisis has left an empty shell of what the genre once was.
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