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<text id=93TT2441>
<title>
Feb. 08, 1993: The Iceman Goeth
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Feb. 08, 1993 Cyberpunk
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK
BUSINESS, Page 21
The Iceman Goeth
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<body>
<p>The rapper and his label agree to disagree--and to split
</p>
<p> When the song Cop Killer, by rapper Ice-T's group Body Count,
brought the wrath of police--not to mention Charlton Heston
and Oliver North--down on Warner Bros. Records and its parent
company, Time Warner, the entertainment giant defended its
artist's right to free expression. But it began taking a harder
look at its albums, rejecting, for example, the work of the
rapper Paris.
</p>
<p> That tougher scrutiny has now sidelined Ice-T himself.
Last week Warner Bros. said he had agreed to leave the label
because of "creative differences." By all accounts, the dispute
centered on the cover art for the album Home Invasion, which
Ice-T was scheduled to release in March. The cover Ice-T
proposed reportedly showed a white teen listening to music on
headphones and imagining black men attacking whites. Warner
Bros. preferred a plain, solid-blue cover with only the album's
title.
</p>
<p> Warner's decision may be a temporary setback for artistic
freedom, but probably not for Ice-T's pocketbook. He'll find
another label for the album, and industry sources expect him to
pull down a higher royalty rate than he got under his Warner
contract.
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</body>
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