>
>>another war on rap coming soon??
>
>Doubt it. Hip-Hop has proven
>to be economically viable since
>then. Plus big business
>would never allow it.
>The same cats who had
>a hand in financing his
>campaign are the same cats
>who run The mega-corporations who
>run major record labels.

Your theory is contrary to history though, because the hip-hop acts attacked by politicians are always the most commercially viable (if memory serves, run dmc, at their height, were a main focus of tipper's assault, odd as it sounds). you're also assuming that corporations wouldn't see political attacks on their artists as *free publicity*. when snoop and tupac were distributed by time-warner, newsweek (owned by time-warner) ran a cover story on criticism of snoop and tupac, in a piece which could be seen as a thinly veiled ad for snoop's debut album (snoop made the cover). any attack on rap by gore-lieberman could be seen by corporations as more "anti-authority" credibility for their artists, sort of like how NWA flipped that FBI letter into a publicity bonanza.

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