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Now That’s What I Call Hip-Hop: Increasing Queer Representation in Rap

A photo of hip-hop artist Young Ma.

While hip-hop artists have changed over time, the message behind the music has, for better or worse, stayed relatively consistent. It’s the same narrative told over and over to a new beat: a man raps about his abilities to get a woman (often in degrading ways), or a woman raps about getting herself a “good man.” Plain and simple, hip-hop remains predominantly heteronormative.…

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