Why Spike Lee Is Evil...

[Phil Wise]

You may not have listened closely if the film put you off, but Chuck D's
analysis has improved a lot on the He's Got Game album.  I think being
forced to stick to a reasonably narrow theme helps.  It's a great record
anyway, stands without the film, because PE's real import has always been
musical.

PE's politics are often a lot like punk rock's, a real scattershot of
contradictions and ammunition, occasionally finding its target and
occasionally mirroring its target (the whole 98 squad setup which with its
pan-movement schtick and anti-gay, white, Jew and female rhetoric flirts
with fascism).

Check out Robert Christgau's excellent piece on Fear of a Black Planet and
the Welcome to the Terrordome controversey in his book "Grown Up All Wrong".
Explains better than I could why PE matter despite all that (music can
sometimes work a better political trick than words, something we've
encountered occasionally ever since the Rolling Stones put out "Street
Fighting Man").

Phil

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From: "Fart Carnage" <pantychrist at hotmail.com>
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Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 9:59 AM
Subject: Re: Why Spike Lee Is Evil...


> I liked Disposable Heroes of Hip-Hoprisy much better, despite their
> incredibly stupid name. Their lyrics seemed to be much more thoughtful
than
> Public Enemy's.
>
>
> >You don't like Public Enemy???  They are one of the best rap bands >ever!
> >I don't like Louis Farakhan either, but "Fear of a Black >Planet" is one
> >the best albums ever.  And I'll always love that "911 I >a Joke."
>
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