Movie: LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT VHS

This feature-length documetnary showcases hip hop's close-knit ties to America's social and political policies in the lst thirty years. See how those movements were destroyed by the FBI and J. Edgar Hoover, and witness rap's birth from those movements and its own progression from being music heard at weekend block parties to its lyrics being debated in the halls of Congress. The film delves deeply into Presiden Ronald Reagan's policies that negatively affected minority communities and inspired pioneer rap artists to tell the whole world. Included are interviews from KRS1, Common, Davey D, Niger Innis, Guru, Dennis Kucinch, Dick Gregory, Tavis Smiley, Ghostface Killah

Release Date: 10/12/2004

Rating: NR - Not Rated

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