The Philosophy of Hip-Hop

Amy Shearn
Momentum
Published in
1 min readFeb 8, 2021

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“Hip-hop is a lot of things,” Scott Woods writes on LEVEL, “but the least discussed of all its facets is how it operates as a philosophy.” Here is the philosophical analysis of rappers you didn’t know you needed, but absolutely do:

The music of hip-hop is loaded with as many ethical questions as it is moral imperatives, and the bulk of its practitioners adhere to at least one personal philosophy. (Rap has very few…

Amy Shearn
Momentum

Formerly: Editor of Creators Hub, Human Parts // Ongoingly: Novelist, Essayist, Person