There�s nothing surreptitious around the message of Boston rap trio East Coast Avengers� new single.
In �Kill Bill O�Reilly,� the lyrics call for the Fox News star to �be hanged like Benito Mussolini and differently killed.�
(NOTE: Associated mp3 contains strong speech not worthy for children or the faint of heart.)
The strain is causation outrage - and non just among admirers of right-wing personality O�Reilly. (Hear it at bostonherald.com. Warning: not recommended for children or the faint of heart.)
The lyrics ar so utmost that even O�Reilly�s fiercest media enemy, TV initiate Keith Olbermann, has condemned the East Coast Avengers.
�Gentlemen, I�m the last person to discord with you on the chicken hawk, lying coward, sexist, racist, needs a face-lift, whore stuff, but you really need to re-cut this track,� Olbermann aforementioned addressing the Avengers last week on his MSNBC show �Countdown.� �Nobody�s life should be threatened, non even in the exaggeration of the moment. Beside, you ar rappers. You have better ethics than Bill O�Reilly does. Live up to them. Don�t live down to him. Word to your mother.�
Olbermann was relatively friendly compared to button-down columnist Michelle Malkin, wHO is besides threatened in the song. She came out swing on her blog.
�Do they have anything better to do?� she wrote. �Rides to pimp? Hos to insult? Bling to steal?�
The East Coast Avengers - Esoteric, DC the Midi Alien and trademarc - are taking the criticism in stride.
�My email and MySpace [website] have been acquiring frequent destruction threats,� Esoteric aforesaid in his first interview since the controversy erupted, �and they all get about a D-minus in grammar and spelling.
�A lot of the conservatives reacting have us pegged as black, and they�re talk about how we shouldn�t get reparations,� he said, noting that the three Avengers are all white. �I find it frightening that a song like this can bring out that stereotypical reaction to hip-hop.�
Rather than back down, the Avengers ar, well, avenging. Soon subsequently Malkin insulted them, the group cut a response dart titled �Dear Michelle.�
Sample verse: �Michelle girl, I don�t want to mix up you/I know you�re off O�Reilly�s show, that don�t excuse you/from being a conservative, neo-Nazi hack of a journalist that�s wrong all the time and don�t deserve to live.�
So far, O�Reilly has yet to acknowledge the sung dynasty, but the Avengers believe Fox News was creditworthy for acquiring the X-rated �Kill Bill O�Reilly� removed from the group�s MySpace page. MySpace and Fox are both owned by Rupert Murdoch�s News Corp. [NWS]
The freshly formed Avengers, who adapted their nominate from a Marvel amusing, rap most a change of topics, often focalisation on politically charged issues. The group�s upcoming October release, �Prison Planet,� targets everyone from Dick Cheney to WTKK-FM personality Jay Severin.
Esoteric, wHO over the past 10 has sold tens of thousands of CDs and toured the world extensively, says that �Kill Bill O�Reilly� has attracted more attention than any of his prevous rhymes. In today�s humans, that may be all the justification needed for recording such a deliberate provocation.
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