Filed under: Daily Drama
Planet Rock the Story of Hip Hop: The Crack Generationfocused on every aspect of how hip-hop and crack ran in the same circles. Washington D.C. took notice of the crack generation in the eighties. Ronald Reagan and the Congress, both Democrats and Republicans banded together to make Crack cocaine more villainous than it's white powder counterpart. It was a veiled attempt by "Washington" to punish and start a war against Black people in the urban areas. People who wanted access to cheap drugs, used crack. Even though white people used crack, Black people mostly used it and Washington made a concerted effort to demonize that drug over any other drug. Laws were passed to give users and dealers penalties that were 100 times harsher than powder cocaine.
Planet Rock the Story of Hip Hop and the Crack Generation, Sunday, 10PM on VH1