Author Koby

There is a tendency, particularly on the part of people who say things like "real hip hop", to place hip hop on a pedestal, to think that it exists somehow outside or beyond the rest of popular culture.  These are the same people who seek to make a division between a Tupac and a Young Thug without seeing the irony in that.  The fact is that the issues that are pervasive in popular culture extend to hip hop as well.  In this article we'll be focusing on homophobia and transphobia.