Watch The Trailer For Planet Rock: The Story of Hip Hop and the Crack Generation

Hip-hop has long drawn inspiration from the drug culture, from the stories of iconic dealers like Ricky Ross (many of whom were profiled in BET’s series American Gangster) to portraits of drug-ravaged communities, and everything in between. Yet the particular connection between the rise of crack in the mid-1980s and the culture of burgeoning hip-hop [...]

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