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- PEOPLE, Page 88No. 2, with a Bullet
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- By ALEXANDER TRESNIOWSKI/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- The criticism of Michael Jackson's car-smashing video
- rampage is kid stuff compared with the charges being hurled at
- rapper ICE CUBE. After his new album, Death Certificate,
- unexpectedly entered Billboard's pop charts at No. 2, several
- groups quickly denounced its lyrics (one song threatens Korean
- grocers; another suggests Ice Cube's former manager, "a white
- Jew," should be shot). "The album is a cultural Molotov
- cocktail," says Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal
- Center, which is trying to bar the record from stores. Even
- Billboard, in an unprecedented editorial last week, said the
- lyrics "express the rankest sort of racism and hatemongering."
- But the angry rapper insists Death Certificate is simply an
- honest statement about black life in America. "This is a racist
- country," he says. "I know that white America is against me. But
- rap music is a form of education, and as long as black kids are
- buying the record, that's all I care about."
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