Theme of the song is comparing the crack cocaine epidemic in America to the addiction of hip-hop in America. Also, he talks about conspiracy theories that have to do with politics. Kanye explained his thought process in the creation of this track: "I started [thinking], if I was to make a song about [crack], I wanted to start where my parents told me it started. ‘How we stop the Black Panthers?/ Ronald Reagan cooked up the answer.’ You say, ‘Ronald wasn’t even the president at the time

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