Can't Stop Won't Stop (91 page)

O'Solomon, Otis,
311

Ossie, Count,
24
,
25

Outkast,
437

“Over Like a Fat Rat,”
257

Ovitz, Michael,
382

Owen, Frank,
231
,
331

Ozomatli,
462

 

Pablo, Augustus,
36

Pabon, Jorge “Popmaster Fabel,”
115
,
117
,
169
,
204
,
205

Palestinian
intifada
,
267

Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO),
266

Palmer, Robert,
275

Palmieri, Charlie,
64

Palmieri, Eddie,
41
,
65

The Paragons,
30

“Parental Advisory” stickers, recording industry,
393

Paris (rapper),
398–399

Parker, Alan,
276

Parker, William,
308
,
310

Parks, Gordon,
192

Parks, Rosa,
403
,
452

Parr, Russ,
303

“Party for Your Right to Fight,”
272–273

Pate, Johnny,
79

Patriot movement,
438

Patterson, Lorenzo “MC Ren,”
318

P-Diddy.
See
Combs, Sean “Puffy, P-Diddy”

“Peace Treaty,”
381–382

“Peace Treaty Special,”
37

Peanut Butter Wolf,
418

Pebblee Poo,
101

Peco, Henry,
364–365
,
386

People's History of the United States
(Zinn),
437

People's
36
,
37

Perez, Richie,
47–48
,
95
,
354

Perkins, Wayne,
27
,
28

Perlmutter, Nathan,
266

Perot, H. Ross,
394
,
395

Perry, Anthony,
366

Perry, Lee “Scratch,”
28–29
,
31
,
33
,
34
,
35
,
36
,
37
,
39

Persian Gulf War,
343
,
437

Petrie, Daniel,
99

Phair, Liz,
447

PHASE
2
,
153
,
175
,
184

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
209

Phillips, Kevin,
220

Picker, David,
192

Guy “Master Gee,”
130

Pierce, Paul,
433

Aaron,
79–80
,
83
,
84

PINK.
See
Fabara, Sandra “LADY PINK”

Pink Floyd,
304

PJAY,
182

“A Place Called Africa,”
34

“Planet Rock,”
170–173
,
179
,
190
,
201
,
241
,
416

Platt, Tony,
28

“Play That Funky Music,”
411

Pleasure (DJ unit),
237

Plotnicki, Steve,
184

police.
See
Los Angeles Police Department; New York City Police Department

“Police and Thieves,”
28

police associations, Ice T,
396–398

politics

anti-apartheid movement,
215–220

anti-gang measures,
322–325

Black leadership,
268–270
,
273–276

Black militancy,
279–280

culture wars, rap music and,
392–394

devolution,
321–322

drug addiction,
205–209

Farrakhan, Louis,
223–225

graffiti culture,
122–123
,
181
,
202–203

hip-hop culture,
413
,
450–455
,
464–465

Jackson, O'Shea “Ice Cube,”
335–337

Jamaica,
31–34
,
36–37

King, Rodney riots,
374–379

Los Angeles, California,
387–392

media monopolies,
439–445

neoconservatives,
220–221

New York City,
16
,
222–223

NWA,
325–329

Public Enemy,
251–255

race relations,
264–268
,
394–398

rap music,
247–250

South Bronx,
8–9
,
16–17
,
167

South Bronx gangs,
45–48

Stewart, Michael case,
194–198
,
201
,
202

War on Youth,
455–457

Pollack, Phyllis,
326

polyculturalism, hip-hop culture,
421–422

Polygram,
399

Poon, Eddie,
322

Popmaster Fabel.
See
Pabon, Jorge “Popmaster Fabel”

Potter, Maximillian,
410

Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr.,
8–9
,
273

Powell, Bud,
147

Powell, Colin,
449
,
450

Powell, Kevin,
424

Powell, Lawrence,
368

P.O.W.E.R. (gang),
95

Powers, Ben, Jr.,
259

Powers, Steve “Espo,”
74

Prashad, Vijay,
421

Pratt, Elmer (Geronimo ji Jaga),
312

Prince,
191
,
302
,
393

Prince Far I,
35

Prince Whipper Whip,
186

print media, structural changes in,
415–417

Priority Records,
317
,
399

prison system,
304–305
,
334

Professor Griff.
See
Griffin, Richard “Professor Griff”

Profile Records,
184
,
203

Promise Keepers,
401

Prophets,
249
,
310
,
311

Proposition
13
,
314

Proposition
21
,
456–457
,
464

Proposition
184
,
391

Proposition
187
,
464

Proposition
209
,
391

“Proud to Be Black,”
241

Pryor, Richard,
208
,
276

“P.S.K.,”
210
,
211
,
236
,
242

Public Enemy,
15
,
231
,
232
,
247
,
248
,
249
,
250
,
251–253
,
260
,
261
,
263–264
,
268
,
270
,
272–273
,
274
,
275
,
277
,
278–292
,
294–297
,
335
,
342
,
394

“Public Enemy #1,”
242
,
246
,
256

publishing industry, graffiti culture,
160–161

Puerto Rican Socialist Party,
52

Puffy Combs.
See
Combs, Sean “Puffy, P-Diddy”

Pumpkin,
133

“Pump Me Up,”
178

“Pump That Bass/Live (Get a Little Stupid…HO!)”,
242

“Pungee,”
344

Purple Lords Party,
47

“Pusherman,”
13

“Put It in Your Mouth,”
446

 

Quayle, Dan,
268
,
396
,
399

Queen Latifah,
445

Queen Lisa Lee,
101

Quiñones,
153
,
184
,
185
,
193
,
198–199
,
200
,
203

 

race relations.
See also
anti-apartheid movement; anti- Semitism

anti-apartheid movement,
215–220

anti-racism movement,
217–219

Bambaataa, Afrika,
100–101
,
105–106

baseball,
8

Black leadership,
268–270

Black suburbia,
233–236

Carter, Alprentice “Bunchy,”
342

Civil Rights movement,
2
,
215
,
221–223

Do the Right Thing
(film),
276–279

Farrakhan, Louis,
223–225

hip-hop culture,
151–152
,
154–155
,
168
,
413
,
418–419
,
425
,
448–450

Howard Beach incident,
225–228
,
277

Jackson, O'Shea “Ice Cube,”
335–337

Los Angeles,
307–309
,
322
,
338–341
,
345–346
,
357–358
,
368–378
,
387–392

media,
340–341

New York City,
145
,
292–294

politics,
264–268
,
394–398

Public Enemy,
251–255
,
296–297

rap music crossover,
243–246

real estate,
233

social class,
270–273

South Bronx gangs,
53

Rachal, Charles “Q-Bone,”
383

radio

black,
250–251

media monopolies, hip-hop culture,
439–443

Rage Against The Machine,
462

Raising Hell
,
209
,
211
,
245

Rakim Allah (William Griffin, Jr.),
215
,
228
,
233
,
256
,
257–259
,
260–261
,
274
,
303
,
319
,
321
,
350

RAMMELLZEE,
153
,
156
,
158
,
160
,
169
,
183
,
187
,
199
,
200

rap music.
See also
hip-hop culture

Black militancy,
248–249

Black radio,
250–251

Black suburbia,
236–243

culture wars and,
392–394

evolution of,
228–229

mainstream culture,
203

politics,
247–250
,
396–398

racial crossover,
243–246

recording industry self-censorship,
398–399

reggae and,
23
,
39

violence,
241

“Rapper's Delight,”
129
,
130–132
,
151
,
185
,
237

“Rappin' Duke,”
210

Rappin'
(film),
192

Rapping Black in a White World
,
311

Rare Earth,
76

Rare Essence,
408
,
409

Ras Michael and the Sons of Negus,
37

Rastafari,
23–26
,
28
,
29
,
31
,
33
,
36
,
37
,
39

“Rastaman Live Up,”
37

Rauschenberg, Robert,
153

Ravitch, Richard,
161
,
181

Ray Dog.
See
Scott, Raymond “Ray Dog, Benzino”

Reagan, Nancy,
194

Reagan, Ronald,
38
,
167
,
177
,
178
,
194
,
217
,
220
,
221
,
223
,
241
,
247
,
248
,
302
,
314
,
315
,
321
,
379

real estate agents,
233

“Rebel Without a Pause,”
260
,
261
,
264
,
268
,
269

Reckford, Verena,
24–25

recording industry.
See also specific labels and companies

hip-hop culture,
129–134
,
184
,
194

hip-hop self-censorship,
398–399

Jamaica,
26–30
,
38–39

legal battles,
178–179
,
190
,
396–398

“Parental Advisory” stickers,
393

rap music,
203–204

Red
,
178

Red Alert,
172

Red
tour (Black Uhuru),
334

Redwood, Ruddy,
30
,
79

Reed, Adolph,
267

Reed, Shaka,
101

reggae

dub,
34–38

rap music and,
23
,
39

record industry,
27–28
,
38–39

record production/sound systems,
28–30

Reid, Duke,
29
,
30
,
38

“Release Yourself,”
175
,
256

“Renegades Chant,”
190–191

“Renegades of Funk,”
190

renegade theme,
190–191

REO Speedwagon,
304

repetition,
263

“The Return of Public Enemy,”
246

Revenge of Da Badd Boyz
,
429

Revival Zion,
25

REVOLT,
334

Revolution of the Mind
,
263