Hip-Hop and the White House | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer | dG1fTU43TV9BbnMtU1U
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00:02 Hip-hop continues to speak truth to power.
00:05 >> Bupac, NWA, and those guys connected me because it was in the language that I speak.
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00:13 >> Reagan's the father of crack cocaine as far as we're concerned.
00:16 >> For him to have the courage to say, "F the police," was new, different.
00:21 [MUSIC]
00:22 >> The Clinton years, we saw the growth of hip-hop.
00:25 >> You got New Orleans entering the game, you got Houston being a big factor.
00:30 [MUSIC]
00:32 >> And they said George Bush doesn't care about black people.
00:35 That was supremely important.
00:37 >> Black people were seen on television begging for help, and nobody came.
00:40 [MUSIC]
00:43 >> In 2020, Obama put me on his summer playlist.
00:45 >> He did need a validation of his blackness.
00:49 >> If you know, you know. Some people might have saw him do that and thought, "Oh, okay."
00:52 They don't know that that was an anthem.
00:54 [MUSIC]
00:56 >> We got Kanye in the White House. That's powerful to me.
00:59 [MUSIC]
01:00 >> Hip-hop has new ideas, new language. It cannot be stopped.
01:03 [MUSIC]
01:05 >> So you don't have to be a political hip-hop artist to make a political statement.
01:09 [MUSIC]
01:10 >> This is the story of how hip-hop got the power.
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