Jeezy, Common and more talk hip-hop and politics in new Hulu documentary [Video]

LOS ANGELES — The evolution will be televised.

The new documentary, “Hip-Hop and the White House” explores the relationship between the music genre of hip-hop and the politicians who shape the policies of this nation.

“We feel that this is really timely because we’ve had the 50th anniversary of the creation of hip-hop and then we have this election. And hip-hop has more influence than it ever had before,” writer/director Jesse Washington told On The Red Carpet.

“We really had to set the stage for what hip-hop came out of and the political consciousness that was baked into the culture from the beginning just by virtue of existing in this country and being on the receiving end of presidential policies since the 1970s,” he continued.

KRS-One, Roxanne Shante, Bun B, YG, Common and Waka Flocka Flame are among those featured in the documentary, along with Jeezy, who narrates the film.

Their stories go back to the 1970s and …