![]() The 80s and 90s saw the best male and female rappers alike used wordplay, repetition, and extended metaphor to relate experiences that were dark, violent, romantic, or hopeful, casting themselves as hero, witness, or seer.īut given the music industry’s history of marginalizing the contributions of women, it’s easy to see hip-hop as a boys’ club. ![]() Just as the sound of the movement was created by the creative repurposing of music that already existed, the success of the genre’s MCs was based on their willingness to shatter old forms and wield the shards to create a new style of self-expression. From the start, hip-hop was about storytelling.
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