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In 1991, the fatality of 15-year-old Los Angeles resident LaTasha Harlins, by Korean shop staff member Soon Ja Du, triggered an uproar. In LA, African-Americans lashed out over their poor therapy they got while buying Korean-owned shops in prominently Black areas. Their rage and also sentiments would certainly be directed later that year by rapper Ice Cube on his tune "Black Korea," from his sophomore solo cd Death Certification. The tune, that included verses about looting Korean-owned stores and also triggering physical injury to their workers, was emphatically opposed by members of the Korean-American community, who spoke up versus Dice's rhetoric. However, the verses would certainly remain uncensored or edited, making its location in the pantheon of sociopolitical demonstration songs. Free speech has been a right that rap artists have actually been defending as long hip-hop has actually been about.
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