Hip-Hop And Politics (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

“Straight Outta Compton” is all over right now, with the new movie out bringing back the story of N.W.A. and its blunt, angry, tell-it-like-it-is rap music from the streets of LA in the 1980s. But the politics of that music can feel relevant to streets straight out of all over the place right now. Ferguson. Baltimore. Cleveland. North Charleston. Staten Island. Last night, St. Louis. From NWA to J. Cole Run the Jewels. Kendrick Lamar. This hour On Point: the politics of rap and hip hop, from “Straight Outta Compton” to right now.
Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2015/08/20/hip-hop-and-politics