Get ready for our deep-dive interview with Dr. Joseph Ewoodzie and Tyler Bunzey. Who are hip hop’s actual gatekeepers? How does hip hop help us understand sociology and gender dynamics? Also, why couldn’t these guys have been teaching when us millennials were in school?!

Between hip hop violinists and Lil Nas X, hip hop continues to evolve. This week, listen as professors Joseph Ewoodzie and Tyler Bunzey stop by the pod to talk gender performance in hip hop.

Sugarhill Gang or Band? The beginnings of commercial hip hop help us understand why vulnerability can be hard to find in the most popular music genre… We’re continuing our music series and accountability strategist and masculinity scholar Nalo Zidan joins us to talk hip hop and capitalism.