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Word: warpath (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...often politically or sexually explicit. N.W.A. (Niggers With Attitude) won an admonishing letter from the FBI for their song FTha Police, in which the singer warns the ghetto's occupying force: "Ice Cube will swarm/ On any m f in a blue uniform . . ./ A young nigger on the warpath,/ And when I finish it's gonna be a bloodbath." Another group, Public Enemy, has been charged with anti-Semitism in their lyrics and statements to the press. But their songs are also critical of blacks who reject their roots, of the brothers and sisters too busy partying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: X Rated | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

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