FUNK & RAP
As Public Enemy release ‘Fight the Power' — on Motown as it's from the
Spike Lee movie Do the Right Thing— it appears that Professor Griff, the rappers’ “Minister of Information” has been kicked outdue to his expressing anti-Semetic sentiments. Chuck D has since said, “Offensive remarks by Professor Griff over the past year are not in line with Public Enemy’s programme. “We are notanti
Jewish. We are not anti anybody. We are pro black, pro black culture and pro human
' ” race.
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Rip It Up, Issue 144, 1 July 1989, Page 4
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