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Like poppa, like son: Rodney Carmichael

All Songs Considered

CHAPTER

The Active Reshaping of My Hip Hop Identity

The active reshape of my own hip hop identity started in earnest maybe around the time I settled into my career as a working journalist. The director Byron Hurt dropped his documentary Beyond Beats and Rhymes that year too. It was my first comprehensive look at how misogyny, homophobia and transphobia became pillars of rap's toxic culture. Do you think that a gay rapper would ever be accepted in hip hop culture? Faster any and then so say the word and we're gone.

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