As this curriculum evolved, I realized I had to find a way to justify Hip-Hop as a true music genre. That meant mostly, showing some of my administrators that I wasn't pushing "gang mentality", "materialism", "misogyny", "explicit language", and "violence". These were some of the reasons I was given by administrators as to why I couldn't teach Hip-Hop.My students and I discussed complementary rhythms, analyzed lyrics for meaning, and learned the history behind the song; but there was more that