"Free Mumia" lyric too hot for MTV

Kevin Robert Dean qualiall_2 at yahoo.com
Fri Sep 20 10:59:16 PDT 2002


Public Enemy Fights the (MTV) Power Thu Sep 19, 2:20 PM ET By Josh Grossberg

Once again, Public Enemy is fighting the power. This time, the subject of the pioneering, politically-minded rap group's ire is a little network called MTV.

The Chuck D-led hip-hop icons have had their latest rap, "Gotta Give the Peeps What They Need," banned by the music channel because of a lyric deemed too political by the suits at MTV, the Los Angeles Times reports.

As is standard procedure with MTV, PE submitted the clip for review earlier this summer. However, the network's standards division balked at airing the track--the first single off the recently released Revolverlution--because it contained the phrase "free Mumia." Full: http://tinyurl.com/1jy6

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