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Article: Public Enemy's Rap Record Stirs Jewish Protests;Group's Chuck D Defends `Terrordome' Lyrics
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- The Washington Post
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- December 29, 1989
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Public Enemy, the militant black rap group at the center of a
controversy last summer after one of its members made antisemitic
comments, has provoked more protests from Jewish organizations over
the group's new single.
The lyrics, which constitute three of "Welcome to the
Terrordome's" 56 lines, are "Crucifixion ain't no fiction: so-called
chosen, frozen/Apology made to whoever pleases. Still they got me
like Jesus" and "Backstab, grab the flag from the back of the lab,
told the rab {rabbi}: `Get off the rag!' "
In a letter to Tommy Mottola, president of PE's record label,
CBS Records, Jeffrey Sinensky, director of the civil rights division
of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai ...