How Hip-Hop Fights The Power And Also Serves It

Published: Aug. 9, 2023, 4:10 a.m.

For hip-hop's not-official-but-kind-of-official 50th birthday, we dig into its many contradictions. From the legend of the South Bronx block party where hip-hop was born to the multi-billion-dollar global industry and tool for U.S. diplomacy it has become, America's relationship with hip-hop \u2014 and the people who make it \u2014 is complicated.

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