Blood on the Turntable: Hip-Hop Wars

The story of how rap burst out of the ghettoes and into both the charts and courtroom, with the 2 Live Crew obscenity trial in the 1980s followed by numerous other battles. Ice-T outraged even the US president with his ultra-violent Cop Killer, as moral crusaders fought to have hip-hop music banned forever. The artists involved discuss their right to talk about the world they know without compromise, and how the hip-hop wars were fought.