Re: FW: RUN-DMC?

[robert wiener <wiener...>]

Thanks (?)

It seems that the album's title is "There's a Poison Goin On", but, no
doubt, they wanted us to think of Lieber & Stoller.

For some reason, I can't access the lyrics to the song from the Public
Enemy web site to check them out.

Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: Rmsarig (at) aol(dot)com <Rmsarig (at) aol(dot)com>
To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Date: Sunday, July 11, 1999 10:04 PM
Subject: Re: FW: RUN-DMC?


>
>> Would you identify the second example of an anti-Semitic Public
Enemy
>>  song?
>
>The group's most recent CD (notable, if only for being among the
first to be
>released first in the MP3 format) is called "There's A Riot Going
On." The CD
>contains a song called "Shindler's Lust," which makes rather oblique
but
>troublesome references to the people who run the entertainment
industry. I
>don't have the exact lyrics, but they probably wouldn't be hard to
track down
>(many media outlets did stories on the ADL's recent condemnation).
>What's most frustrating about this second controversy is that it
seems so
>calculated. P.E. are not nearly as popular as they were in the late
'80s and
>early '90s, and the group's recent comments about the song (things
like,
>"Everyone has to check out the song and see for themselves if they
agree with
>what I'm saying") suggest this is a desperate bid to get someone to
care
>about their music.
>But again, this is an isolated incident, and should be condemned that
way.
>Anti-Semitism in commercially released rap is virtually non-existent.
>-Roni
>
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