Rap vs. Ronald Reagan   Perhaps no figure so divides the
American people like Ronald Reagan. Rap and Hip Hop culture has
for decades cited the Reagan era as a decisive and dangerous
turning point in modern American history, while conservative
Republicans hail the late president as a sort of savior whose
radical conservatism restored the country to strength. While Hip
Hop culture and conservative Republicans disagree on the effect
of Reagan and his administration’s policies on the country, both
agree that Reagan transformed the country and set the course on
which the nation remains. The Eighties may be over, but we
continue to live in the Age of Reagan.  Don’t Call it a Comeback
A recent focus by rappers on the Reagan Era and its aftermath
renews the anti-Reagan critique so historically prevalent in Hip
Hop. Kendrick Lamar’s album Section 80 is a meditation on the
generation born in the 1980s, what he calls “children of Ronald
Reagan.” Juelz Santana, too, plans an upcoming mixtape called
The Ronald Reagan Era