Why Ben Shapiro Is Wrong About Rap

Try 2 months of Skillshare absolutely free Well, looks like it s that time of year again. When Ben Shapiro (or anyone else) argues that rap and hip hop aren t technically considered music, they re flying in the face of basically all established scholarship on the topic. And it s not like we re just making this stuff up, either: We have good reasons for interpreting music (and specifically hip hop) the way we do. They re not even complicated reasons, which makes it mystifying to me t