From Grandmaster Flash to Kendrick Lamar, rap music has spent decades making space for the conversations about mental health that society has struggled to start.
Long before mental health became a mainstream cultural conversation, hip-hop was already in the room. The genre has functioned as a confessional space since its earliest days, giving artists…
Cardi B has never had much patience for limiting conversations, and this week she made that abundantly clear. During an X Spaces session, the rapper shut down online comparisons being drawn between her and other artists in her lane and redirected the entire discussion toward the scale she is actually building toward.
Fresh off the…

