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

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:
<a href="https://www.pbs.org/show/fight-power-how-hip-hop-changed-world/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.pbs.org/show/fight-power-how-hip-hop-changed-world/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1686166814809000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2GSXrYMiWNcF7qGpjpvOul">Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World</a>, Chuck D’s PBS documentary
<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/hip-hop-at-fifty-an-elegy" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/hip-hop-at-fifty-an-elegy&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1686166814809000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2cAraCedj_hqRv4gBEUSt8">Hip Hop at 50: An Elegy</a> by Jelani Cobb for The New Yorker

Some of My Best Friends Are… is a podcast hosted by Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Ben Austen, two best friends who grew up together on the South Side of Chicago in the 1980s. Today a Harvard professor and an award-winning journalist, Khalil and Ben still go to each other to talk about their experiences with the absurdities and intricacies of race in America. In Some of My Best Friends Are..., they invite listeners into their unfiltered conversations about growing up together in a deeply-divided country, and navigating that divide as it exists today.

Some of My Best Friends Are

To the Hip Hop You Don’t Stop with Jelani Cobb

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