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May 11th 2006 at 9:21 am in A post on Public Enemy’s Enemyboard pointed me to this interview with Paris that you might want to read if you’re interested…
Interesting quote:
Describe how your very pronounced political perspectives have affected you from a business standpoint.There were more issues with putting out Sonic Jihad than Sleeping with the Enemy. Sleeping with the Enemy was my second album and it featured “Bush Killa†and “Coffee, Donuts and Death†which were pretty incendiary at the time. I mean, “Bush Killa†called for the assassination of President Bush’s father while he was in office. It was a record that had a lot of anger and spoke directly in response to conditions that existed in our community, and the neglect and lack of attention that was paid to us except during the election year. The record kicked up a firestorm of protest and people like Charlton Heston, Tipper Gore and that whole contingent of people were already speaking out about Ice-T’s “Cop Killer,†so Warner Music for the most part shut me down. I ended up putting that record out on my own and it damn near went gold.
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