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Welcome to InHerSews. I'm Lindsay Peoples and I'm Editor-in-Chief of the Cut.

On this show, I get to talk to people that we love and admire or some that we just find interesting.

We'll explore how they found their path and what maybe have gotten in their way

and how they brought others along now that they've arrived.

Hey, so here at the cut we've been doing a lot of coverage on hip hop,

turning 50 and celebrating where the genre is today. We've had covers this year with

Glorilla, young Miami from the city girls, and we've talked about up-and-coming artists like

Sexy Red and Ice Spice. Ski is one of my favorite songs of the year, so we had to, right?

And on this episode, we'll hear from Bevy Smith and Deborah Lee tell us what hip hop

turning 50 means to them. Bevy Smith has always been tuned into the culture and was incredibly

instrumental in platforming hip hop artists in her roles at Vib and Rolling Stone.

But being a Harlem native, she was able to take us back to the early days.

And of course, her fondest memories.

I have to ask since we're doing a ton of 50 years of hip hop stuff with the cut.

Obviously, you have been a big part of hip hop being in culture in the way that it is.

We did Glorilla earlier this year. We did Ice Spice. We just did Carisha on a cover.

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