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Subject: Ice-T show includes 'Cop Killer'
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 92 15:00:28 EST
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\HD Ice-T show includes 'Cop Killer'
\BY Alphonse McCullough

Rap star Ice-T defiantly performed "Cop Killer" in a high-energy
concert Tuesday night at the University of Maryland's Richie Coliseum.

Public Enemy, the other rap act on the bill, backed up Ice-T on the
song, which has infuriated police nationwide and which the metal rapper had
indicated would not be part of his show.

Outside, about 200 protesters held a candlelight vigil.  Inside, as the
State Police watched, the crowd moved to the furious audio assault and paid
rapt attention to Ice-T and PE's Chuck D, two of pop music's most outspoken
political personalities.

Ice-T recorded the nonrap "Cop Killer" with his metal band, Body Count,
which is scheduled to play the 9:30 Club next month. The song, about an
angry young black man's desire to kill a police officer, was deleted from
Body Count's album during the summer after police groups protested its
lyrics.

PE welcomed Ice-T after delivering such rap anthems as "Rebel Without a
Pause," "911 Is a Joke," "Don't Believe the Hype" and "Can't Truss It."

By that time, the largely white collegiate crowd was stage-diving and
fist-pumping.  It recited the "Cop Killer" lyrics along with Ice-T.

(Promoters in Upper Darby, Pa., canceled last night's scheduled concert
by Ice-T because off-duty police refused to work as security officers, the
Associated Press reported.)

Ice-T opened the concert with a furiously paced, all-rap set, rolling
through material on five albums and various movie soundtracks.  Pausing
only when he stopped to talk, he also previewed new material ("I Ain't New
to This") before hitting his stride with "O.G.," "New Jack Hustler" and the
set-closing "Colors."

After an intermission, PE stormed the stage.

"This is the one tour they didn't want to see happen," boomed Chuck D,
who, along with the irrepressible Flavor Flav, rose above technical
difficulties with a tight, strong set.

You couldn't always make out the lyrics, but the crowd didn't seem to
care as PE moved seamlessly from "Tie Goes to the Runner" to "Night of the
Living Baseheads," "Bring the Noise" and "Welcome to the Terrordome," and
on to newer material like the controversial revenge fantasy "By the Time I
Get to Arizona."

Alphonse McCullough, a free-lance writer, is associate producer of
Black Entertainment Television's "Rap City."


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