Hot In Here: Hip-Hop's Hidden Climate Battle

A museum rising in the Bronx offers a window into the genre’s underreported—and deeply complex—history with a warming planet.

The following story grew out of a project I researched as a Columbia Knight-Bagehot fellow last year; Grist published a condensed version in August 2023. Please enjoy the full “Director’s Cut” on the intersection of two topics dear to me.

Under the Major Deegan Expressway, somewhere just north of 150th Street, through a set of double doors wedged between…