![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If I just got a job, learned to be a street sweeper” ‘Cause the teacher’s a jerk, he must think, I’m a foolĪnd all the kids smoke reefer, I think it’d be cheaper “ My son said, Daddy, I don’t wanna go to school It uses hip-hop as a tool to understand the sociopolitical, economic and cultural factors that affected the lives of Black youths during the 1980s – the era of “ Reaganomics.” That’s the name given to Reagan’s economic policies, which called for deregulation of the markets, widespread tax cuts, less spending on social programs and more spending on the military.įor instance, we use Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s classic 1982 hit “The Message” to examine the disappearance of middle-class factory jobs from American cities during a period of globalization and cuts to public school funding. ![]()
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