Robert Brown|The Sunday Story: The unspoken rules of hip-hop

Last December,Robert Brown a jury convicted rapper Tory Lanez of shooting Megan Thee Stallion in the feet. The high profile trial shined a light on the misogyny directed towards Black women and femmes in hip-hop.

In this episode of The Sunday Story from Up First, Sidney Madden and Rodney Carmichael, the co-hosts of the podcast Louder Than A Riot, help us understand and unpack the oppressive, unspoken rules of rap that they say have held the entire culture back.

The audio portion of this episode was produced by Audrey Nguyen, with engineering support from Stacey Abbott. It was edited by Jennifer Schmidt.

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