And if you say Lady Gaga or Kanye we probably have different definitions of meaningfully and truly controversial.

To be fair, I think I probably wouldn't have thought Madonna was meaningfully controversial but it hindsight I think she did contribute to the popular discourse regarding America's puritanical views on sex.

Folks may want to say Killer Mike or Yasiin Bey but I don't think enough of the main stream is checking for them to count a pop figures for this discussions sake.

I'd say NWA or Public enemy for sure but there has got to be folks since then in hip-hop right?? (not trying to backdoor another tupac discussion so I won't mention him).



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