How’s this for government intimidation? In early August, a letter arrived on the desk of Priority Records president Brian Turner. We thank Marsh and Pollack for their permission to reprint. Reprinted below is the report by Dave Marsh and Phyllis Pollack, exactly as it was published in the Village Voice‘s October 10, 1989, issue. While the N.W.A biopic, Straight Outta Compton, has several issues of its own, no one’s claiming it shouldn’t have been made (or that nobody should see it or that we should picket movie theaters that show it or orchestrate letter-writing campaigns against it). N.W.A were on the cover of the Village Voice in October of ’89, in what remains today an eye-opening report (reprinted below) on the extreme lengths the religious right and law enforcement went to in order to vilify artists like N.W.A and Guns N’ Roses, along with Siouxsie and the Banshees, Prince, L.L.
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