10 Rappers Accused Of Promoting Terrorism
THE COUP
Created in June 2001, the original cover art for the group's album Party Music showed Boots Riley and Pam the Funkstress blowing up the Twin Towers with a digital chromatic tuner made to look like a detonator. Due out in early September, the album was pushed back to November so the art could be changed to something more sensitive and family-friendly: a Molotov cocktail in a martini glass.
SCREWBALL
In response to Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's support of abusive NYPD cops, this Queensbridge group put out the song “Who Shot Rudy?” which imagined the day of his assassination. Just to show that there were no hard feelings, Rudy G told his boys in blue to harass the shit out of them.
ICE-T/BODY COUNT
In 1992, Ice and his heavy metal band Body Count put out “Cop Killer,” a first-person song narrative about a guy who shoots 5-0 as payback for police brutality. While some would argue that cops terrorize poor communities, the NRA, police advocacy groups, and even President George H.W. Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle said he was promoting the murder of civil servants and campaigned to force Warner Bros. to withdraw the album. Death threats were sent to Warner Bros. Records executives, but it wasn’t until stockholders threatened to pull out of the company that they got really shook.
DEAD PREZ
The group's name alone could be considered treasonous in Bush's phone-tapping New World Order, but revolutionary gangstas M-1 and stic.man have gone as far as to talk about firebombing police precincts, assassinating politicians, and (gasp!) sticking up white pizza delivery boys! Gotta get that extra cheese!
OL’ DIRTY BASTARD
ODB was arrested twice in California in 1998 for making what the sun-fried state considered “terrorist threats.” In September, he threatened to shoot House of Blues security in West Hollywood when they ejected him for being drunk and belligerent. In November, he was arrested again for allegedly threatening to kill the mother of one of his kids. Those charges were dropped due to lack of evidence, and all we have to say to CA is: N—- please.
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Basim September 11, 2008 at 8:31 pm
How is Immortal Technique not on this list??? What about NaS??? I’m glad to see M.I.A. but you missed a lot of others. And as far as the point of this article… Fuck Amerikkka just like Ice Cube said it. They built this shit on my ancestors backs and now they want my sympathy??? FUCk’EM ALL!!! My sympathy goes out to the millions of lives lostg on the middle passage. My sympathy goes out to the civilians and innocent bystanders who had to suffer and pay for the crimes of this country. The chickens came home to roost and they still haven’t learned their lessons.
DeShawn Stevenson September 11, 2008 at 10:07 pm
ll cool j’s new album was like a suicide bomb in my ear
K-Theory September 12, 2008 at 2:47 pm
How about Non-Phixion? They’ve got “I Shot Reagan” “Cult Leader” “Suicide Bomb” and “The CIA is Trying To Kill Me”.
Somebody should add an honorable mention at least to the article.
tito September 12, 2008 at 5:45 pm
east coast avengers are soon to be on this list with kill bill o’reilly for sure
emdubz September 13, 2008 at 1:39 am
They may have built this shit your ancestors backs
but they stole this land and killed my ancestors
im Native American and i say fuck America
Chris-Edelgard July 29, 2009 at 3:01 pm
Great idea, but will this work over the long run?