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Originally Posted by kronic
"Now I'm black but black people trip 'cause white people like me; white people like me I but don't like them. . . . I don't hate whites, I just gotta death wish for motherfuckers that ain't right";
--"Race War"; Ice-T
"Like my niggas from South Central Los Angeles they found that they couldn't handle us; Bloods, CRIPS, on the same squad, with the Essays up, and nigga, it's time to rob and mob and break the white man off something lovely";
--"The Day the Niggaz Took Over"; Dr Dre
"Bust a Glock; devils get shot. . . . when God give the word me herd like the buffalo through the neighborhood; watch me blast. . . . I'm killing more crackers than Bosnia-Herzegovina, each and everyday. . . . don't bust until you see the whites of his eyes, the whites of his skin. . . . Louis Farrakhan . . . Bloods and CRIPS, and little old me, and we all getting ready for the enemy";
-- "Enemy"; Ice Cube
Ice-T, Dr Dre and Ice Cube. I wouldn't exactly call any of them "obscure".
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Of those three the only one that actually says they are shooting and killing white people is Ice Cube. The other two are more subtle.
Still, point well taken, these are three well-known rappers. But again, These are three guys all trying to sell records. They wrote and recorded this stuff and released it to the public. The recording of the kids clearly looks like it was done on the sly and it is of a private moment. These guys aren't trying to make art or sell records, they seem to be conveying a pretty racist belief.
Do I think if some well-known white singer released an album that had a line in a song about him shooting black people that it wouldn't be highly controversial? I don't doubt that it would be. But lets be honest it isn't like Ice-T, Ice Cube and Dr. Dre have never had any controversy surrounding them. It's what they do. They are professional shit stirrers.