Letter To The President (Full Frame)

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This feature-length documentary showcases hip-hop's close-knit ties to America's social and political policies in the last thirty years. Even before hip-hop, black musical artists of the past have been at the forefront of civil rights and black power movements of the late '60s and '70s. 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. "Letter To The President" delves deeply into President Ronald Reagan's policies that negatively affected minority communities and inspired pioneer rap artists such as Grandmaster Melle Mel and Run DMC to tell the whole world about it in song. Then in the "glamorous" '80s, as some people prospered and many minority communities suffered, artists such as Russell Simmons struggled to get laws overturned that targeted those minorities. -See hip-hop's societal contribution and boldness in making rebel music that has turned the spotlight on many controversial topics. -Explore issues such as 2 Live Crew's first amendment fight, the effect of Gansta Rap, police brutality, state and local police surveillance, rap music's detractors, "The O'Reilly Factor" and, most important, hip-hop's radical move to make it's mark in future and upcoming elections. -Interviews from an eclectic list of players: KRS-ONE, Common, Davey D. Niger Innis, Guru, Dick Gregory, Ghostface Killah, Raekwon, Luke, Big Tigger, Daddy O, Amiri Baraka, Dana Dane and more!.

Video outtakes of Snoop Dogg's Narration recording session; Uncut interviews from Dick Gregory, David Banner, Chuck D, KRS-One, M1, Russell Simmons and more!Deleted Scenes, Interviews, NTSC.