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Authored by Matt Lamb via The College Fix,

A popular rap song from Ben Shapiro expressed “white male grievance” and “racist” and “sexist” views, according to a “hip hop” professor…

Associate Professor of Hip Hop A.D. Carson applied his expertise to the song “Facts,” by Shapiro and Canadian rapper Tom MacDonald.

The University of Virginia scholar, whose doctoral thesis was a rap album, compared the “blatant racism” in the song to other music, like Jason Aldean’s anti-riot song “Try That in a Small Town.” That country song contained “coded” racial language, according to several professors.

He wrote further:

“I would love to believe that racist, sexist, white male grievance rap isn’t where the zeitgeist is in America,” Carson wrote. “But Ben Shapiro and his conservative followers are betting that it is – at least for a brief moment.”

The song topped the Billboard list as a number one single. The pair’s rap plays off Shapiro’s famous line that “Facts don’t care about your feelings,” and focuses on how this song won’t be promoting sexual immorality, guns, or drugs.

It has 16 million views as of this writing.

MacDonald rapped:

“I hope I offend you.”