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Ethan Brown, who frequently writes about hip-hop, said the industry showed their anger over the police harassment of minority youths and the perceived imbalance of a criminal justice system that metes out harsh sentences to low-level drug dealers. Again Mr. Brown and others say, hip-hop fails to differentiate between those who help the authorities prosecute drug crimes from those who seek law enforcement's hand in combating violence. He added it is very obvious that the federal system is out of whack and that people are being put away for the rest of their lives based on informants. Mr. Brown's latest book ''Queens Reigns Supreme,'' stated the rise of hip-hop in Queens in the 1980's and 90's. Ethan Brown, who writes about hip-hop, said the industry is angry over the police harassment of minority youths and the perceived imbalance of a criminal justice system that metes out harsh sentences to low-level drug dealers. According to Mr. Brown and others, the problem is that hip-hop fails to differentiate between those who help the authorities prosecute drug crimes from those who seek law enforcement's hand in combating violence. His latest book, ''Queens Reigns Supreme,'' details the rise of hip-hop in Queens in the 1980s and '90s.