Tipper Gore's and C. Delores Tuckers revenge actually. Their efforts to censor and limit the expression of artists such as Tupac Shakur led to a public condemnation against their assault on the first amendment. It would seem they lost that battle but not the war.
The Rutgers 10 struck a chord that said you may be like that but I'm not like that. Imus crime was showing that he was influenced by popular culture and no longer a leader of it.
As previously mentioned his present value was high but his future value was quite low.
The gumbo of sex and race is too irresistible for many so Ann Coulter says Imus could have called her a flaxen-haired ho and Michelle Malkin points the finger at the Billboard Hot Rap Tracks Chart.
In fact, if there is a smoking gun it is rap music as more and more columnists are saying.
So now an already embattled music industry is receiving renewed attention to the point where Russell Simmons and Snoop Dogg are issuing statements.
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