A Call For a More Nuanced View of Hip-Hop


Last week Meek Mill threw a barb Drake’s way, making the claim that that Toronto rapper doesn’t write his own lyrics. Large swathes of hip-hop heads were up in arms over the notion that one of the most visible artists in the genre might not be writing his own work. The controversy, which is one as old as the genre itself, made it readily apparent that after 40 years of beats and rhymes, it’s time we developed a more nuanced view of hip-hop.

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