If you’re wondering why hip-hop has often been angry, sneering, nihilistic and dystopic, you can blame the war on drugs, and how it feels to be on the wrong side of it. President Nixon announced a war on drugs, but it was President Reagan who started the modern battle in 1982, when hip-hop was in [...]
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