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...that unusual. The not-so- little secret of the recording industry is that hip-hop music is a source of enormous profits. For all the claims that revolutionary rap speaks for oppressed inner-city youth, its main consumers are affluent white suburban teenagers seeking to cloak their adolescent rebellion in a veneer of ghetto toughness. Some formerly impecunious ghetto youths have turned into millionaires by becoming rap artists. Not for nothing does Ice-T boast on his recent release Original Gangster that "William Morris is my agency. I'll never go broke, got property...
...been rapping about for years. I have been one of the voices from the 'hood trying to let you know what kids on the street are thinking." To him, the riots in the wake of the Rodney King verdict were predictable. "If you didn't expect the rebellion after such a miscarriage of justice, then it just shows how out of touch...
While the rebellion by Stone, Crisp and others captured media attention, their opponents held the high cards. Phyllis Schlafly, head of the Republican National Coalition for Life, insisted that neither Bush as a candidate nor the party as an institution could afford to waffle "on a high moral principle." The Bush campaign's representatives at the session quietly agreed. Campaign officials, who control the platform, will permit no compromise language and will probably be able to quash efforts to debate the issue at the Houston convention. A representative of the National Abortion Rights Action League murmured, "This is an exercise...
...until later in the decade, however, when Ginsberg, Leary and the Dead gathered for a music festival in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, did suburban America realize the dimensions of the cultural rebellion...
...companies on CEO compensation through the proxy system. Shareholders at 43 companies, including Chrysler, IBM and Eastman Kodak, have submitted proposals seeking to curb executive pay. Next year the number could double. Says Ralph Whitworth, president of the United Shareholders Association: "What we're witnessing is a full-scale rebellion against corporate greed run amuck...