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- <title>
- Feb. 08, 1993: The Iceman Goeth
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 08, 1993 Cyberpunk
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- BUSINESS, Page 21
- The Iceman Goeth
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>The rapper and his label agree to disagree--and to split
- </p>
- <p> When the song Cop Killer, by rapper Ice-T's group Body Count,
- brought the wrath of police--not to mention Charlton Heston
- and Oliver North--down on Warner Bros. Records and its parent
- company, Time Warner, the entertainment giant defended its
- artist's right to free expression. But it began taking a harder
- look at its albums, rejecting, for example, the work of the
- rapper Paris.
- </p>
- <p> That tougher scrutiny has now sidelined Ice-T himself.
- Last week Warner Bros. said he had agreed to leave the label
- because of "creative differences." By all accounts, the dispute
- centered on the cover art for the album Home Invasion, which
- Ice-T was scheduled to release in March. The cover Ice-T
- proposed reportedly showed a white teen listening to music on
- headphones and imagining black men attacking whites. Warner
- Bros. preferred a plain, solid-blue cover with only the album's
- title.
- </p>
- <p> Warner's decision may be a temporary setback for artistic
- freedom, but probably not for Ice-T's pocketbook. He'll find
- another label for the album, and industry sources expect him to
- pull down a higher royalty rate than he got under his Warner
- contract.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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