Like the sights and sounds of hip-hop, Christmas is around the corner and probably on everyone’s playlist too. For most people, “Deck the Halls” and pop variations of “Jingle Bells” are usually the holiday carols of choice. For rap fans, it might be more “Christmas in Harlem” than “Silent Night.”
Christmas rap songs are one of the most unique traditions in America because the street life from which they were carved couldn’t be more at odds with the hot cocoa-drenched, all-American archetypes many of us have been white-fenced into. Christmas rap often subverts popular holiday customs and mythologies. In the popular Christmas canon, St. Nick lands in the South Pacific before he goes anywhere
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