While hip-hop fans and rappers alike often find it hilarious when their interpreters need to translate their vulgarity into sign language, as was the case when ASL Interpreter Kelly Kurdi became a ...

Hip-hop was particularly useful in helping him connect the dots with ASL thanks to its storytelling sensibility and Maxey's personal joy in finding "deeper meaning" within a song.

The deal also exemplifies how conservative-minded hip-hop media figures have become in 2023. Hip-hop, as a community, is more conservative than many fans would like to admit.