![]() Now, as Soundcloud has proved in abundance, just about anyone can even become a rapper. Now anybody can obsess over rap, and learn about its histories, and become a “well actually” snob about it. ![]() In the new version, that question of who rap is “for” becomes even harder to answer when rap is now mainstream, from the music to the culture. But enough time has elapsed that now Marshall Mathers can move on to producing a film like Bodied, which reignites that debate by transposing those questions to the modern era. It’s odd to think that it’s now been more than 20 years since Eminem broke big, and with him, a broader cultural debate about who rap is for, and who it’s not for, and who exactly gets to determine who’s sorted into each of those categories.
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