Drake and Kendrick are beefing, but who pays? Plus, moms as our social safety net

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🗓️ 10 May 2024

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Drake and Kendrick have been trading diss tracks for weeks, and it's gotten darker and darker with each track. Drake accuses Kendrick of beating women, and Kendrick accuses Drake of abusing minors. It's a spectacle, but who are the pawns? Brittany chats with NPR Music's Sidney Madden and writer Tirhakah Love about the collateral damage in this rap beef.

Then, Brittany turns to Holding It Together a new book that describes how America has avoided building a social safety net and instead relies on women to provide the services that could be universal to all. Author Jessica Calarco joins the show to dive into the book and take a look at the cultural forces that keep women holding it all together.

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0:17.0	Hello, hello. I'm Brittany Loose, and you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR,
0:27.0	a show about what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident.
0:42.2	A quick warning, this segment includes mention of domestic violence, pedophilia, and sexual abuse. This week we're connecting the dots between 47 minutes of
0:45.0	this week we're connecting the dots between 47 minutes of music the meanest
0:49.4	rap lines may be ever and a Pulitzer Prize winner.
0:53.0	How are all these things connected?
0:55.0	Well, we're going to find out with NPR Sidney Madden and writer Turhaka Love.
0:59.0	Sydney Turhaka, welcome to its been a minute.
1:02.0	What's up, Brittany?
1:03.0	It's good to be here.
1:04.0	And boy, do we have a lot to unpack here?
1:08.0	I barely even want to go here just considering some of the subject matter,
1:11.0	but someone has got to call out all these men
1:15.3	involved for the mess they have made. I'm obviously talking about Drake and Kendrick Lamar
1:20.0	who have been going at each other for weeks, multiple at this point on distract after
1:26.2	distract. And this past week, things definitely escalated. I don't even know if escalated
1:32.4	captures what went down. What word would each of you use to
1:36.4	describe the back and forth between them and where we're at now?
1:40.3	Oh, you're both like kind of grimacing like a little disconcerting. Yeah. The first word that comes to my mind because of how much dirt has been on earth right now is really just like
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