Hip-Hop and the White House | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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Transcript

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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01:00 >> Hip-hop has new ideas, new language. It cannot be stopped.

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01:05 >> So you don't have to be a political hip-hop artist to make a political statement.

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01:10 >> This is the story of how hip-hop got the power.

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