Last December, a jury convicted rapper Tory Lanez of shooting Megan Thee Stallion in the feet. The high profile trial shined a light on the misogyny directed towards Black women and femmes in hip-hop. In this episode of The Sunday Story from Up First, Sidney Madden and Rodney Carmichael, the co-hosts of the podcast Louder Than A Riot, help us understand and unpack the oppressive, unspoken rules of rap that they say have held the entire culture back.

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