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Source: tmz / TMZ

This short film, narrated by Jay Z (Shawn Carter) and featuring the artwork of Molly Crabapple, is part history lesson about the war on drugs and part vision statement. As Ms. Crabapple’s haunting images flash by, the film takes us from the Nixon administration and the Rockefeller drug laws — the draconian 1973 statutes enacted in New York that exploded the state’s prison population and ushered in a period of similar sentencing schemes for other states (read more via The NY Times here)

Jay Z: ‘The War on Drugs Is an Epic Fail’ [VIDEO]  was originally published on wzakcleveland.com