Keeping cases of police misconduct in mind, I argue that anti-police sentiments in rap music are understandable. It’s understandable if we view this rhetoric as political dissent and if we consider the important role rap has in political mobilization. It must be established that anti-police rhetoric in rap music are…

Rap music, while great to listen to casually and for leisure, is important to critically study for two reasons: to gain insight about the historically marginalized and to expand the sociological imagination. Firstly, Blackness has been the antithesis of whiteness since America’s inception, and given that rap is overwhelmingly Black…