I’m trying to look for more stuff about crack cocaine and when it first came out and shit. One area I am looking into is the rap culture that grew up around that same time… Anyway, I found a semi-related quote which is just awesome:

‘Soul is the sound of African Americans leaving church; rap is the sound of them not coming back.’ Or is hip-hop neutral? ‘MCs are reporters, pure and simple. Public Enemy’s Chuck D ought to win a Pulitzer for ‘war correspondence.'’