Best Of: 'Louder Than A Riot' Hosts / Biggie's Legacy

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🗓️ 26 August 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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For years, hip-hop has been dominated by men and hyper-masculine lyrics. That's changing. "The girls and the gays are running things. They're the cultural crusaders at this point," says Sidney Madden. She co-hosts the NPR podcast Louder Than A Riot with Rodney Carmichael. They'll both join us to discuss the podcast's second season, which focuses on hip-hop's strain of misogyny and homophobia, and how a new generation of women and queer artists are refusing to stand for it. We'll also revisit the legacy of the late rapper Biggie Smalls with journalist Justin Tinsley.

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0:00.0	From WHYY in Philadelphia, this is Fresh Air Weekend,
0:03.7	I'm Tanya Mosley.
0:05.3	For years, hip hop has been dominated by men
0:08.4	and hyper-masculine lyrics.
0:10.6	That's changing.
0:11.8	Where we're at right now with who's running hip hop,
0:14.8	where the barometer is at with hip hop,
0:16.8	the girls and the gays are running things.
0:18.7	That's Sydney Matten.
0:19.6	She's a host for the NPR podcast louder than a riot,
0:23.0	along with Rodney Carmichael.
0:25.0	They'll both join us to discuss their current season,
0:27.8	which focuses on hip hop strain of misogyny and homophobia
0:31.6	and how a new generation of women and queer artists
0:33.9	are refusing to stand for it.
0:36.1	We'll also revisit the legacy of the late rapper
0:38.7	Biggie Smalls, with journalist Justin Tinsley.
0:41.8	Biggie has seen as one of the all-time great musical
0:44.8	storytellers.
0:45.8	He called himself the black Alfred Hitchcock.
0:48.5	Biggie was killed in a drive by shooting in 1997,
0:52.0	just two weeks before his second album, Life After Death,
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