FX's six-part documentary series Hip Hop Uncovered is like going to a bookshelf, seeing a multi-volume history of a pivotal genre and grabbing a book from somewhere in the middle.
That's not a criticism in any way. It's just a way of explaining that a series that FX has given a title of head-scratching nebulousness is a chapter within a much bigger conversation, and not the conversation itself.
It's an intermediate course that maybe assumes you've taken the 101 intro — but if you've indeed taken that intro course, Hip Hop Uncovered has intriguing characters, a provocative throughline and a rich approach to culture that I mostly appreciated.
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