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- From: klm3298@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (K-Mello SGP '92)
- Subject: Re: pIN The Tail On The Honky (Ice Cube/Lenchmob)
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:11:39 GMT
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- In article <XJAM.92Nov18152703@cork.CS.Berkeley.EDU>, xjam@cork.CS.Berkeley.EDU (The Crossjammer) writes:
- >...deleted
- >You're confused. There's nothing that says that Cube's record company is
- >obligated to distribute all of his material. I'll even bet that when he
- >signed his contract (you better believe there was one) there was a clause
- >reserving the right to ask for changes, deletions, etc. That's the price
- >you pay for getting paid.
- >
- >Now if Ice Cube distributed his cut on self pressed records and tapes from
- >out the back of the trunk of his car, and his company said "You can't do
- >that, this stuff is indecent." then you have censorship.
- >
-
- If Cube distributed his cut on self pressed records and tapes from out the back
- of the trunk of his car, they would probably sue his ass for doing shit on
- another label.
-
- >The hip-hop community needs to learn this lesson with a quickfast.
- >Constantly shouting "CENSORSHIP!" when *somebody else* decides to not
- >distribute your stuff is 1) ignorant and 2) creates noise that drowns out
- >real cases of censorship.
- >
- >You have a right to say whatever you want but not a right to make sure I
- >hear it.
- >--
- >xjam@cork.Berkeley.EDU Fiiiive Thousand Boomin Watts...... -The JBeez
- >
- >They can't come on and play me in prime time, | Free Millipede coin op
- >Cause I know the time, cause I'm gettin' mine. | and House music at my
- >I get on the mix late in the night... -Public Enemy | place! Drop by sometime.
-
- K-Mello
- SHYGUY Productions '92
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