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In 1991, the fatality of 15-year-old Los Angeles local LaTasha Harlins, through Korean store employee Soon Ja Du, triggered an outcry. In LA, African-Americans snapped over their inadequate treatment they received while patronizing Korean-owned stores in prominently Black communities. Their anger as well as sentiments would certainly be carried later on that year by rap artist Ice Cube on his track "Black Korea," from his sophomore solo album Death Certificate. The song, that included verses concerning looting Korean-owned shops as well as causing physical injury to their employees, was emphatically opposed by participants of the Korean-American community, who spoke out versus Cube's unsupported claims. Nonetheless, the lyrics would certainly stay uncensored or edited, making its area in the pantheon of sociopolitical protest songs. Free speech has been a right that rap artists have been fighting for as long hip-hop has actually been about.
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