Louder Than A Riot: Season 2
In hip-hop, unwritten rules have forced Black women and queer artists to fight for space. Can the genre's rule-breakers push their way to the center, while pushing the culture forward?
How the double standard became hip-hop's standard
Rodney Carmichael Sidney Madden
Megan broke a rule.
It's a rule built into the hierarchy of rap, a rule that explains why men remain at the top and women in this business get treated like bottom b******. The tale is older than the genre itself, but this particular story begins in 2020. The same year that Black women single-handedly saved American democracy from turning on itself, Megan Thee Stallion was busy bodying hip-hop. She beat out Drake and DaBaby for the BET Hip Hop Awards' artist of the year, dropped a bomb a** "Savage" remix with Beyoncé and linked with Cardi B to baptize the global pandemic in some "WAP."
Megan shot her way to the top of the charts. Not once, but twice. Then,
