[78-L] Strange Fruit

[Royal Pemberton]

On 7/18/09, agp <agp2176 at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> Not to leave out a gansta rap version of Strange Fruit. I doubt that
> anyone who does rap even knows who Billie Holiday is. The point being
> that a song that wants to address an injustice can do it a way that
> delivers a stronger wallop via its subtleties. If Strange Fruit was
> written today it would have an extra verse telling the listener to go
> and kill a cop!
>
> T

Now they could just do a mash-up of 'SF' with one of those anti-cop
rap ditties that was all the rage (NPI) about 15 years ago.