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Hip-Hop Has Been Telling Us About Fatherhood All Along

The music has already warned us what happens when a man’s pain goes unprocessed. It becomes rage, distance, and addiction. It becomes violence and emotional numbness. It becomes another generation of children trying to decode the silence of men who love them but don’t know how to reach them.

Still, I don’t hear hip-hop’s fatherhood story as hopeless. I hear it as unfinished.