From the very first minutes of HBO’s hit drama series, Succession, hip hop is used to underpin, juxtapose and comment on the story of corporate intrigue, capitalist entitlement and white privilege.
Just as a hip hop beat underscores the classical piano lines to the show’s theme song by composer Nicholas Britell, hip hop’s swaggering braggadocio acts as a counterpoint to the Roy family’s rarefied worlds of high finance and plutocratic untouchability.
