From NPR Music, I'm Robin Hilton with the 10th and final episode of NPR Music's

Louder Than a Riot Podcast.

All season long, Team Louder has been looking inward at how a culture created by the marginalized

became such a marginalizing force to so many within it.

And they've tackled the unwritten rules of rap that hold the whole culture back.

Now for the show's finale, the team digs into what exactly enforces all of these rules.

And that's the scarcity mindset.

This is the belief that access and resources are so limited for those marginalized in hip

hop that people have to fight tooth and nail for them.

And that only one can wear the crown at a time.

Ladder takes the temperature of many in hip hop on the topic, asking how the scarcity mindset

impacts their art and their lives.

The entire Louder team also gathers to say goodbye as they're forced to reckon with scarcity

too.

Thanks for listening and I hope you enjoy the show.

A warning before we begin.

This podcast is explicit in every way.

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So like give us some stories, give us some stories.

So I remember when we were getting ready to film.

I remember when we got kicked out of 11 because we was fighting the racist woman in the

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