# @thefader on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C2u9PXQsX2y
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/10850149-thefader-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-01-30T18:01:18.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The FADER (@thefader) — https://gondola.cc/thefader

## Caption

Rap Sh!t, Issa Rae’s recently canceled dramedy, skewered the music business with wry and imperfect insight.⁠
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The joy of Rap Sh!t is in its disempowerment. That isn’t to say Shawna and Mia, the hip-hop duo at the heart of the show, don’t find success — where things leave off at the end of season 2, their rise to national notoriety seems inevitable, if burgeoning. But every victory is hard-won, marred by mistakes or moral compromise. If rap music sells us the notion of the rapper as superhuman and superlucky, Rap Sh!t recognizes the rapper as exploited and exploitative. A dream job is still a job.⁠
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Read our review and post-mortem of Rap Sh!t at the link in bio.⁠
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✍️ Vivian Medithi ⁠
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#RapShit #IssaRae

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rapshit, issarae

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