Ben and Khalil are joined by their friend Jelani Cobb, Dean of Columbia Journalism School and New Yorker staff writer, to talk about 50 years of hip hop. They discuss what the music meant to them growing up in Chicago and New York. They talk about the documentary Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World, and also about how the music’s legacy lives on.

Additional links:

Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World, Chuck D’s PBS documentary

Hip Hop at 50: An Elegy by Jelani Cobb for The New Yorker