Following Ronald Reagan's election as president, conditions in inner-city black communities worsened, and hip hop political commentators began to increasingly address worsening social problems such as high unemployment, police brutality, incarceration, inadequate public schools, political apathy, and oppression.
Following Ronald Reagan's election as President, conditions in inner-city black communities worsened and the economic, political, sociological and technological forces in the 1980s put changed the commentaries in R&B. In the 1980s, hip hop political commentators began to increasingly address these worsening social problems, including high unemployment, police brutality, incarceration, inadequate public schools, political apathy, and oppression.