From Spotify Studios, this is Dissect.

Long-form musical analysis broken into short digestible episodes.

I'm your host Cole Kushna. Today we continue our serialized analysis of the miseducation of Lauren Hill.

On our last episode, Miss Hill held a mirror to gender dynamics and stereotypes and

hip-hop culture on the song Doop that thing.

It's the first of a trio of songs on miseducation that directly address what

Miss Hill views as flawed or superficial in the contemporary culture of her era, specifically within the hip-hop community.

Many of her observations and opinions about this subject formulated while Miss Hill was pregnant

with her first child.

She told the Rolling Stone, quote,

once I had my child, I was forced to sit still.

Had I not sat still, maybe I would have been caught up in the whirlwind too.

But because I was on the outside, I could see just how materialistic the

industry was. It frustrated me that it had nothing to do with talent and musical

merit. MCs didn't have to write the rhymes. Sing singers didn't really have to be able to sing.

I just felt like the world of music was upside down."

This disheartened sentiment about the music industry is expressed potently on

mis-education's next two tracks, the first of which is the door is

the first of which is the Doors inspired lament, Superstar.

Come on baby, lie my fire.

Everything you drop is so tired.

The music is supposed to inspire.

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