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Show The Salt Lake Tribune NATION Sunday, 10, 1995 Sep She Is Waging a War on ‘Gangsta Rap’ In Effort to Save Kids By Sonya Ross THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Looking around the office of C. DeLores Tucker, it’s easy to see why she is furious with rap artists whose songs characterize women,particularly black women, as whores, sluts or worse. One wallis dominated by a portrait of Rosa Parks, smiling and serene. On a cornertable banked by windowsstands a sculpted Sojourner Truth, the ex-slave suffragist, with clasped hands thrust forward on ebony-wood arms. Just behind the desk, Coretta Scott King beamsat Tucker from a photograph snapped while they support, I have been asked and embarrassedly had to defend why our leadership wasn’t taking more of a role,” Tucker says. “But we havea lotof wars,a lot of battles. It’s just like the military. Every unit of the Defense Department cannotbe at the same place. I can’t beatall their battles. So, shareholders meeting with a Snoop Doggy Doggsingle. She handed out printed transeripts of “gangsta” rap lyrics, urging Time Warner executives Gerald Levin and Michael Fuchs to recite them. They didn’t. But they did give Tucker the meeting she wanted. “T told him, ‘Mr. Levin, you are headofthe largest entertainment industry in the world.It’s being used to destroy African-American people,’ Tucker said. “I told him about the black males — 25 I've put it on that.” Frustrated in trying to meet with record-company executives, Tucker purchased 10 shares of stock in Time WarnerInc., which ownshalfof rap labels Interscope Records and Death Row Records, and stomped into the annual terscope. Interscope, however, fired back by suing Tucker, saying she tried to coerce Time Warnerinto severingits ties, effectively destroying the distributor’s business with “extortion, threats and other unlawfulacts.” The lawsuit seeks an injunction against Tucker and unspecified damages, but Tucker is unmoved. “This is just another effort to percent areeitherin jail or under some judicial regulation. I said, shared the dais during a meeting cloud the real issue and discredit our efforts to stop segments of the music-record industry from pimping pornography to children,” she said. Meanwhile, her immediate goal is to stop. or at least thwart, the release by Time Warnerof “Dogg Food,” an album by Tha Dogg Pound that Tucker calls “the filthiest of them all” but which many industry officials predict will go straight to the top of the d i She credited her protest for delaying the release of “Dogg Food,” which was slated for Aug. stop it,” Tucker says. ‘Our chil- dren have suffered too much.” This is the way things go when C. DeLores Tucker latches onto something. Being a get-it-done woman,it is rare that she doesn’t get her way. As secretary of state for Pennsylvania from 1971 to 1977, Tucker instituted voter registration by mail, and reduced the voting age from 21 to 18. She decidedto reg@ Sce Next Page OfficeMax’ longpast. It is adjacent to another photograph of Tucker marching beside King and her martyred husband,Martin Luther King Jr., in rural Alabama. Other great black women are there too: Shirley Chisholm, the first black womanto serve in Congress, and Mary McLeod Bethune, the educator and adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Among the mementos of the legendary, there sits a rather ordinary pair of white plastic handcuffs from the Metropolitan Po- ‘Mr. Levin, how are we going to raise a race of people with no men?’ This is the story that hasn't beentold.” Now, Time Warneris seeking to divest its 50 percent share of In- 15, and said she believes the delay is what prompted “this frantic flurry of fictional lawsuits” against her. “Wherever gangsta rap is, we're going to be there to take whatever action is necessary to “Available on all electronics *on-in-store purchases BoAMeals lice Department. on,” Tuckersays. ‘‘I’d die before I'd let that music continueto be.” To saythat Tuckeris on a crusade would be an understatement. 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