Ep 45: Whiteness and hip hop – Prof Tricia Rose is often referred to as the world’s foremost academic on Hip hop. Her ground-breaking book on the emergence of hip hop culture, Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America went on to define what is now an entire field of study.

She joins me to discuss how whiteness reduces hip hop to entertainment, whether some music just isn’t for ‘white’ ears and that line, between cultural appreciation and cultural appropriation.