Yeah, I mean, the musical does really work in the context of hip-hop culture?
...of course the hip-hop I listen to tends to be way more of the "We're poor as fuck but we can all stand together and bring down The Man" variety than the "Look at all my cars and hos" kind - and both strains have coexisted for the entire history of hip-hop as a genre. Sometimes in the same song. As they do in Hamilton too. The fact that most people think of the gold chains and leopardskin when they think of hip-hop instead of the socially activist stuff is down to, y'know, racism and capitalism. As usual.
/says the person whose knowledge of old-school East Coast hip-hop mostly comes from once spending a week at social justice boot camp in the same group as Paradise the Architect
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...of course the hip-hop I listen to tends to be way more of the "We're poor as fuck but we can all stand together and bring down The Man" variety than the "Look at all my cars and hos" kind - and both strains have coexisted for the entire history of hip-hop as a genre. Sometimes in the same song. As they do in Hamilton too. The fact that most people think of the gold chains and leopardskin when they think of hip-hop instead of the socially activist stuff is down to, y'know, racism and capitalism. As usual.
/says the person whose knowledge of old-school East Coast hip-hop mostly comes from once spending a week at social justice boot camp in the same group as Paradise the Architect