Anoushka Mutanda-Dougherty

I absolutely would agree. And a lot of this ultimately, I think, boils down to the fact that we have a gender problem, anti-woman problem, an anti-trans problem, an anti-queer problem. And in many ways, our attention to hip hop around these questions is really an attempt to scapegoat hip hop because it can be easily sent away. It's a form of extraction that is almost extra to the industry.

It doesn't help the industry move, but it's like the icing on the cake for the industry. And so it's expendable in certain kinds of ways. And if hip-hop disappears, yes, we got rid of our gender and sexuality problem. But the reality is that all the questions that we raise about how things function in the industry speaks to the fact that if you are a young woman in American society,

It doesn't help the industry move, but it's like the icing on the cake for the industry. And so it's expendable in certain kinds of ways. And if hip-hop disappears, yes, we got rid of our gender and sexuality problem. But the reality is that all the questions that we raise about how things function in the industry speaks to the fact that if you are a young woman in American society,

It doesn't help the industry move, but it's like the icing on the cake for the industry. And so it's expendable in certain kinds of ways. And if hip-hop disappears, yes, we got rid of our gender and sexuality problem. But the reality is that all the questions that we raise about how things function in the industry speaks to the fact that if you are a young woman in American society,

regardless of your industry, right? You could be an academic. You could be an undergraduate student, right? You could be a musician. You could be working in a factory in Amazon. You are dealing under particular kinds of conditions that allow for you to be exploited sexually and violently in the context of your everyday lives, right? The fact that we have rappers who put language to this in music,

regardless of your industry, right? You could be an academic. You could be an undergraduate student, right? You could be a musician. You could be working in a factory in Amazon. You are dealing under particular kinds of conditions that allow for you to be exploited sexually and violently in the context of your everyday lives, right? The fact that we have rappers who put language to this in music,

regardless of your industry, right? You could be an academic. You could be an undergraduate student, right? You could be a musician. You could be working in a factory in Amazon. You are dealing under particular kinds of conditions that allow for you to be exploited sexually and violently in the context of your everyday lives, right? The fact that we have rappers who put language to this in music,

just speaks to a kind of symbolic and surface aspect of what's happening more deeply in the context of the culture.

just speaks to a kind of symbolic and surface aspect of what's happening more deeply in the context of the culture.

just speaks to a kind of symbolic and surface aspect of what's happening more deeply in the context of the culture.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

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The rapper Sean Diddy Combs is currently inside the Metropolitan Detention Centre in Brooklyn, awaiting trial in May on charges of sex trafficking, transportation for prostitution and racketeering with conspiracy. He denies all the allegations.

The rapper Sean Diddy Combs is currently inside the Metropolitan Detention Centre in Brooklyn, awaiting trial in May on charges of sex trafficking, transportation for prostitution and racketeering with conspiracy. He denies all the allegations.

The rapper Sean Diddy Combs is currently inside the Metropolitan Detention Centre in Brooklyn, awaiting trial in May on charges of sex trafficking, transportation for prostitution and racketeering with conspiracy. He denies all the allegations.

We're going to be examining what each of these federal charges means over the coming weeks, hearing from experts and people affected in cases separate to Diddy's. We're starting with sex trafficking. And to be honest, we've heard a lot about this offence in the media in recent years.