The declining relationship between hip hop and Obama

Obama and Ludacris

My book (with Travis Gosa, Cornell University) on hip hop and politics–titled The Hip Hop & Obama Readerwill be published on Oxford University Press next month.

In anticipation of that, we just published this op-ed in The Washington Post on the declining relationship between hip hop artists/activists and the President.  We not only chart this decline and offer reasons for it, but we also consider the ramifications for the 2016 election.