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Article: Record Turnout For Italy's Voters; Rap Album Parodies Politicians' Pat Promises
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- The Washington Post
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- January 17, 1996
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Rap has a foothold in Italy, and on any given day radio
listeners can hear performances by such rhythmic luminaries as
Ice-T, 2 Live Crew, Snoop Doggy Dogg and Silvio Berlusconi.
Berlusconi? Italy's media millionaire and former prime
minister is a rapper? Well, sort of.
He is the involuntary star of a satirical rap-soul-funk album
called "Par Condicio," a bitter condemnation of the state of Italian
politics. Berlusconi's words, taped from TV by the album's creators,
have been set to music along with a chorus of numerous other
politicians as they pledge, pontificate, hurl insults at each other,
deny wrongdoing and more often than not just babble.
It is an album that catches a ...