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...TUNE Last week Rudy Giuliani accused Hillary Clinton of promoting drug use by playing Billy Joel's Captain Jack when she announced her run for the Senate. (The song contains a drug reference.) These musical New Yorkers suggest other campaign options...
Flavor Flav, rapper, Public Enemy: I just re-recorded a song by Chicago called Does Anybody (Know What Time It Is). That's the song Hillary should use, because it's a throwdown, a challenge. It says, "If y'all feel that Rudy Giuliani doesn't really know what time it is, then maybe...
Joey Ramone, lead singer of the defunct New York City punk band the Ramones: Beat on the Brat by the Ramones. Giuliani's a brat. He gets the job done, but he is a brat, and he takes himself a bit too seriously. New York's about having a good time. We're a fun city, and this song is all in good New York...
...Queensbridge, N.Y.'s rap supergroup Screwball's "Who Shot Rudy?", New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani had this to say: "I do not consider it one of the better songs of the year." Not surprising, as the song centers around a fictionalized assassination of a certain iron-fisted, tight-lipped future Senate candidate. Screwball is part of the Queensbridge Housing Projects' (not to be confused with Queens) hip-hop legacy, which includes standouts like Mobb Deep and Nas. Its four members pull no punches lyrically, but the hard-knockin' beats and surprisingly melodic riffs are like spoonfuls of sugar...
...things are harder to fix than the tarnished image of a police force. The NYPD, for example, recently saw the p.r. efforts that followed the Abner Louima torture case nullified, first when Mayor Giuliani discarded a task force report that called for departmental overhaul and now with the trial of the cops who fired more than 40 bullets into unarmed Amadou Diallo. Mention of the Chicago Police Department, despite the absence of recent major scandals, still evokes images of protesters brutalized and hosed down by rampaging police outside the 1968 Democratic convention. But no American police department has been...