4 Myths About Hip-Hop From a Rap Nerd

There’s more than meets the eye and this is why we should listen with our ears

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Rap music is underappreciated. Rap artists sell millions of albums annually but the genre is still mocked regularly. I will always defend it and probably listen to hip-hop for the rest of my life.

Hip-hop was founded in the 1970s in the Bronx, New york. There were block parties held by an…