Four experts on the hip-hop industry — Hofstra Law School professor Akilah Folami, Earle Mack School of Law professor Bret Asbury, and rappers Jasiri X and Paradise Gray — analyzed how the hip-hop industry has changed over the past decades in front of nearly 35 students and New Haven community members at the Yale Law School. During the discussion, the panelists spoke about how hip-hop music, which began as a genre devoted to exploring social injustices has become dominated by images of violence and misogyny — a development they attributed to the corporatization of the industry."
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