Critique: Has hip hop learned anything from Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’ victory lap? – The Windy City Word

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Critique: Has hip hop learned anything from Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’ victory lap? – The Windy City Word

If 2024 was the year of expelling culture vultures within hip hop in order to recenter Blackness and gatekeep the music, then rappers Snoop, Nelly, Rick Ross and Souljah Boy didn’t get the message. And the backlash against them has been pretty strong since their performances at President Donald’s Trump’s inauguration festivities. The call outs continued through Grammy weekend. Merely mentioning Snoop’s name at the award ceremony triggered sounds