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In 1991, the death of 15-year-old Los Angeles resident LaTasha Harlins, at the hands of Oriental shop staff member Quickly Ja Du, created an uproar. In LA, African-Americans snapped over their poor treatment they received while purchasing from Korean-owned stores in prominently Black communities. Their anger as well as sentiments would certainly be directed later on that year by rap artist Ice Cube on his track "Black Korea," from his student solo album Death Certificate. The tune, that included lyrics about robbery Korean-owned stores and causing physical injury to their employees, was emphatically opposed by participants of the Korean-American area, that spoke up versus Dice's unsupported claims. However, the lyrics would stay uncensored or modified, making its area in the pantheon of sociopolitical protest music. Free speech has been a right that rap artists have been fighting for as lengthy hip-hop has been around.
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