Street Disciples: Broken Glass Everywhere

<p>By the 1980s, hip-hop artists were beginning to expand the party culture of hip-hop's early years and think about what they wanted to say with their music. </p><p>Faced with a city wrecked by economic abandonment and neglect, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five released “The Message” in 1982, calling out the conditions head-on: “rats in the front room, roaches in the back, junkies in the alley with a baseball bat.” </p><p>And to take control of this environment of neglect, young artists began shaping their environment through dance, fashion, and graffiti. But with the growth in the culture came a crackdown on Black America: in the form of “broken windows” policing, and then a ramped up <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_drugs" target="_blank">War on Drugs</a>.And as some members of the hip-hop counterculture became targets of police harassment, they began to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmo3HFa2vjg" target="_blank">fight the power</a> with work that was bold and demanding..</p><p>In the second episode of “Street Disciples,” Trymaine Lee hears from: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melle_Mel" target="_blank">Melle Mel</a> of the Furious Five, fashion designer <a href="https://www.instagram.com/dapperdanharlem/?hl=en" target="_blank">Dapper Dan</a>, graffiti artist <a href="https://www.instagram.com/ceyadams/?hl=en" target="_blank">Cey Adams</a>, sociologist <a href="https://www.triciarose.com/" target="_blank">Tricia Rose</a>, historian <a href="https://twitter.com/NewBlackMan?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_blank">Mark Anthony Neal</a>, and hip-hop activist <a href="http://harryallen.info/?page_id=3" target="_blank">Harry Allen</a>. </p><p>Follow and share the show on <a href="https://twitter.com/intoamericapod" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/intoamericapod" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/intoamericapod" target="_blank">Instagram</a>, using the handle <strong>@intoamericapod</s