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  Cop Killer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
There is one cop killer in particular who rankles the rank and file of the Philadelphia police.
Rizzo, a cop’s cop who was called "The Cisco Kid" during his early career, would go on to become the city’s populist, law and order mayor.
Cop killers were glorified in a "gangsta" rap song by Ice-T some time ago.
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  Cop Killer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cop Killer: a 1983 movie starring Harvey Keitel and John Lydon.
Cop Killer: title of the English translation of the ninth and penultimate book in the detective series written by Sjöwall and Wahlöö.
A "cop killer" bullet is an armor piercing teflon coated bullets capable of penetrating body armor.
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 Cop Killer (album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cop Killer is the eponymous debut album of heavy metal group Body Count.
Due to the uproar over the release of the song "Cop Killer," the original album was pulled and re-issued as Body Count without the song.
It was replaced by an uncredited remix of an older song by Body Count frontman Ice-T, "Freedom Of Speech." The cover art was also altered, with the "Cop Killer" tattoo on the character's chest being replaced with a "Body Count" tattoo.
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Decontextualization The reaccenting of "Cop Killer" by white voices was mirrored by the selective excerpting of the song's lyrics by its opponents.
The "Cop Killer" case is perhaps the clearest manifestation of this principle from this decade.
The call to ban "Cop Killer" became, to some extent, a free speech issue for Ice-T as well; in the altered version of the album sold by Time-Warner starting in August, the First Amendment appears in place of the printed lyrics to "Cop Killer" in the Body Count cassette inset and CD booklet.
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 Ice-T, "Cop Killer"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
This song came out originally on Body Count (1992), an album by a rap & heavy metal band of that name which Ice-T had been fronting.
Said Ice-T, who actually played a cop in the 1991 movie New Jack City, "I'm singing in the first person as a character who is fed up with police brutality.
But I never did it." Soon, however, the offending song was removed from the record, and the next year, Warner Brothers dropped both the band and Ice-T as a solo artist.
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 Body Count - Body Count Review - sputnikmusic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Cop Killer is about killing cops because as the story tells, Ice-T was held up by a cop because he was fl.
While Cop Killer is very explicit, it’s still a great starting off with a bit of spoken word by Ice-T and then this full on punk song with machine gun sounds throughout the song giving it certain imagery.
There is 7 filler songs on this but they at least serve a purpose on the album and the songs don’t really have a lot of substance.
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 The killers smile like you mean it   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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 Fears of the White Unconscious: Music, Race, and Identification in the censorship of "Cop Killer"
It was this articulation of repressed and contradictory elements of suburban white male identity with the equally unspeakable fears aroused by the Los Angeles rebellion that forced the censorship of "Cop Killer".
The story of "Cop Killer" and its censorship is inextricably imbricated with the occurrences in Los Angeles during late April and early May of 1992.
"Cop Killer" had to be censored because it demonstrates at the level of shared lived experience that this difference is not essential, rather it is undeniably historical and cultural.
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 Rapping about cop killing. Dennis R. Martin Mark Hamm Jeff Ferrell
Sales of Cop Killer, and the Body Count album on which it appears, have soared since law enforcement officers from around the country rallied behind police organizations like the National Association of Chiefs of Police, CLEAT (Combined Law Enforcement Officers of Texas), and the American Federation of Police.
The teen-age killer, Ronald Howard, explained to law enforcement authorities that he felt hypnotized by the lyrics of six songs by the rap group 2 Pac, from their album 2 Pacalypse Now which urge the killing of police officers.
And to demonstrate how this song may have changed the social and political consciousness of these would-be cop killers, within the dynamics of their own sub cultural arrangements, is of paramount importance for understanding the situated social meanings of gangster rap.
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 Review/Rock; Ice-T as Macho Avenger, With Attitude to Spare - New York Times
He took pains to praise some police officers, saying, "The hardest job in the world is being an honest cop." Then he went on to detail the targets of the song: someone who "puts on that badge and thinks he or she is God." "Be careful," he added afterward.
And as in hip-hop concerts, he spends time between songs setting up their premises, making sure the audience understands his point of view and how ironic he intends to be.
Sometimes, as in "Cop Killer," the songs' violence is provoked by racism; elsewhere, as in a new song called "Last Breath," he simply plays a psychotic who preys on women.
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 Floridian: 'American Skin' proves thin for police
Springsteen's mournful song, which includes the lyric "You can get killed just for living in your American skin," is hardly the harshest attack on the police, but it prompted a call from the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association for a boycott of Springsteen's 10 performances at Madison Square Garden.
The tradition of rapping the knuckles of the armed and powerful is a rich one in American popular music; protest songs appeal to the iconoclasm that gave birth to this nation.
The rapper Ice-T created an unprecedented furor in 1992 when he recorded the song Cop Killer, in which the song's protagonist vows to seek revenge on police who stopped him just because he was fl.
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 Cop Killer - Three
Spokesman Ronald Hampton; "This song is not a call for murder, it’s a rap of protest.
Now opposition to Cop Killer was not only coming from police groups, it was under political pressure too.
The Cop Killer incident gave them just the opportunity they needed, more over, the media’s one sided coverage of the Cop Killer incident gave them the opportunity they needed, Hastings Vice-president Walter Miller; "The concern came when it got so such publicity.
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 Daily Vault - April 18, 1997
The controversy over their self-titled debut became so intense that the song in question was pulled from the album and Warner Brothers dropped Ice-T from their roster.
In the song, the character portrayed by Ice-T solves the problem by rationalizing his mother is evil and murders her.
It scares me more so than "Cop Killer," which offends many people - except me. And I probably should be offended - true story, I lost a friend who was a police officer to the violence of the streets.
www.dailyvault.com /1997_04_18.html   (699 words)

  
 Ice T Music, News, Concerts, and More from SonicBreakdown   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The song was inspired by Schoolly D's "PSK" and became itself the inspiration for Eazy E and NWA's "Boyz N The Hood." Ice-T went on to work with Afrika Islam, the man behind the beats on 1987's Rhyme Pays, 1988's Power and 1989's The Iceberg/Freedom of Speech...
This eventually caused the album to be re-issued with "Cop Killer" removed, and Warner Brothers Records to drop him from the label.
He answered the controversy by saying the song was written in character, and that "if you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut." Indeed, Ice-T has portrayed police officers many times in his acting career.
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 Cop Killer - Two
She also called on radio stations not to play Cop Killer, the fact that none of them were playing it anyway seemed lost on Ms.
Those same four lines were to come to represent not just Cop Killer, Bodycount and Ice –T, but by extension, gangsta rap, the Los Angles riots and the threat posed by the young, disaffected fl youth in general.
The problem of police brutality toward inner-city fl youths was all but ignored in the Cop Killer debate, no one appeared to care where Cop Killer came from, but the sooner it went back there and was silenced, all the better.
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 Group Publishing: Group Magazine: Article Library
The rapper said he wanted to prove he's not trying to profit financially from the song, which has become the focus of police groups across the nation because of its controversial lyrics.
"[ÔCop Killer'] is not a call to murder police," he said at a news conference.
Encourage kids to talk about the song with their non-Christian friends and help them see that not all Christians are hypocritical like the song's main character.
www.groupmag.com /articles/details.asp?ID=2577   (1249 words)

  
 MHM 306 Listening Guide #14
Banned by radio stations in Boston because of its supposedly lewd content, the song rocketed to the top of the charts spurred by the resultant publicity.
"Porn Wars" is by far the longest song I’ve included on the tapes for MHM306, but it provides wonderful insight into the testimony for the Senate and shows one creative artist’s attempt to depict the confusion, irrationality, and misinformation he perceived to characterize the event.
Cop Killer traces its lineage to several earlier rap songs, especially F&endash;&endash; Tha Police," by N.W.A. According to Rocklists, a series of other rap tunes were never released because of the Cop Killer controversy: "Bullet" The Intelligent Hoodlum; "Shoot ‘Em Down," Boo-Yaa Tribe; "Justice for the Hood," Juvenile Committee; "Cop Hell," Mob Deep; and "Mr.
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 BNR Metal Pages -- Body Count   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Already an established rapper and budding actor, Ice-T recorded a song "Body Count" on his 1991 rap album, the song forming the basis for the band of the same name.
Soon, a major storm of publicity developed over the song "Cop Killer", so much so that the label forced the removal of the song (this, in turn, prompted Ice-T to leave the label).
The "Cop Killer" controversy aside, the legacy of Body Count's music isn't terribly lasting.
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 Willamette Week Online | Music | REVIEW | Cops and Rockers (12/3/2003)
Now the song's story becomes even more unusual: The narrator recounts how his girl faces up to the cops, while he shivers with fear behind her.
The song fits neatly into the category of cop songs, even as it exposes the genre for what it really is, something even more familiar.
After all, at its core, "Cop Killer" serves as a love story between Ice-T's hero and a fl community frustrated by the Rodney King beating, while Springsteen's "State Trooper" recounts the love story between the hero and freedom.
www.wweek.com /editorial/3005/4600   (923 words)

  
 Rap, Rock, and Censorship (Mathieu Deflem)
The same Prince song was also listened to by the daughter of free-lance journalist Kandy Stroud, who was shocked to discover that her daughter was exposed to "unabashedly sexual lyrics" (Stroud 1985:14).
Also around the same time, Pam Howar, wife of a wealthy construction executive, noticed the lyrical contents of the songs she was dancing to during her aerobics classes, and discovered that her daughter was listening to the same kind of music over breakfast.
He specified that all of Twisted Sisters’ songs the PMRC had condemned as containing references to sadomasochism, bondage, and rape, were all misquoted or misinterpreted.
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 Fulton Daily News - Fulton, New York - Cop Killers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
So now the big question is, "Should cop killers receive the death penalty?" Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno has been pushing the issue and, on April 25th, the Utica Police Chief commented during a press conference that it has become "open season" on police officers.
From there, the song goes on into about 25 lines that involve the line, "F**k the Police!" There is also a "Die, die, die pig, die!" (Huh, maybe that's where Alec Baldwin got it from.) The song is terrible.
Police don't need the added threat of these crazy cop killers who just want to be fashionable or who have a death wish for themselves.
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 National Review: Art, ideas, and Ice-T - controversy over rap singer's lyrics - Editorial   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
FACED WITH public outrage over "Cop Killer," Gerald M. Levin, president of Time-Warner, extruded the following solemnities in the Wall Street Journal: "'Cop Killer' wasn't written to advocate an assault by fl street kids on the police.
He tries to make "Cop Killer" sound meritorious, while denying that Time-Warner bears any responsibility for what it says or for any results it may have in the street.
Ice-T isn't Keats, and "Cop Killer" isn't an exercise in negative capability.
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 Amazon.com: Body Count: Music: Body Count   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Luckily, I have a copy with the song Cop Killer on it and it is one CD that I never, ever loan to friends.
In 1992 when Cop Killers came out, the Rodney King incident and LA Riots were still fresh in people's mind and the Los Angeles Police Department was under heavy scrutiny, at least by the media, for a along history or racism and accusations of institutionalized police brutality.
Songs that get no stars are those that I might like but not enough to give it a star or ones I find boring or actively dislike.
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