Russ Bach, president of CEMA, which manufactures and ships everything from classical to childrenвЂ™s music, defended his companyвЂ™s decision to distribute the N.W.A package. retailers, including the 146-outlet Owensboro, Ky.-based WaxWorks record retail chain, have already refused to carry the album. вЂњEfil4zaggin,вЂќ released by Ruthless/Priority Records, is distributed in this country by CEMA, which is owned by the giant British conglomerate Thorn/EMI and handles Capitol and EMI product in this country.ДЄlthough the record is stickered with a warning label that reads: вЂњPARENTAL ADVISORY-EXPLICIT LYRICS,вЂќ some U.S. Earlier this month, DeMoss urged 1.8 million readers of Focus on the FamilyвЂ™s monthly magazine to ask retailers across the nation to remove the N.W.A album from their shelves.

вЂњThe message on N.W.AвЂ™s record is that violence against women is fun,вЂќ said Robert DeMoss, youth culture specialist at Focus on the Family, a Pomona-based Christian media watchdog group and radio broadcaster. Some critics say вЂњEfil4zagginвЂќ contains some of the most vicious anti-woman rhetoric of any album ever marketed by a mainstream record distributor.

While there have been criticisms regarding what some see as misogynistic impulses over the years exploited in some songs by various hard-rockers and rappers, no group has raised the ire of media watchdog groups as much as N.W.A. N.W.A leader Eric (Eazy-E) Wright told the Source, a New York-based rap magazine, that Barnes вЂњdeservedвЂќ what Young is alleged to have done to her. Besides, it ainвЂ™t no big thing-I just threw her through a door.вЂќ AinвЂ™t nothing you can do now by talking about it. Neither band members nor their attorney would discuss the suit with The Times, but Young, 26, recently acknowledged the incident in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine: вЂњI just did it, you know. Young-who faces one misdemeanor battery count related to the Barnes incident-allegedly attacked her in late January because he was upset that a television spot featuring former N.W.A member Ice Cube had unexpectedly been inserted into a segment on her вЂњPump It UpвЂќ show last December spotlighting N.W.A. A follow-up to the critically and commercially successful вЂњStraight Outta ComptonвЂќ album in 1989, the new album sold more than 1 million copies in two weeks. The album contains two selections in which Young brags about brutalizing women that get in his way.Дespite receiving virtually no radio airplay, вЂњEfil4zagginвЂќ shot to No. Three weeks before Barnes filed her June 27 claim, N.W.A released вЂњEfil4zaggin,вЂќ an album laced with graphic lyrics about beating, raping and murdering women. Millions of little boys listen to this crap-and theyвЂ™re going to grow up thinking itвЂ™s all right to abuse women.вЂќ вЂњItвЂ™s about how N.W.A rages violence against women in general. вЂњMy lawsuit is not just about one five-foot three-inch woman getting slapped around by a six-foot two-inch guy,вЂќ said Barnes. Dre) and the other three members of the Los Angeles rap group N.W.A.ДЄnd Barnes says her suit-which accuses Young of вЂњassault and batteryвЂќ and other N.W.A members with вЂњlibel, slander and infliction of emotional distress'-is at its core about the close relationship between N.W.AвЂ™s misogynistic lyrics and violent crimes against women. 27 at the Po Na Na Souk club, has become the center of a $22.7-million lawsuit filed by Barnes, 23, against Young (who goes by the stage name Dr. The alleged assault, which occurred during a private party on Jan. I ran into the womenвЂ™s bathroom to hide, but he burst through the door and started bashing me in the back of the head.вЂќ вЂњNext thing I know, IвЂ™m down on the ground and heвЂ™s kicking me in the ribs and stamping on my fingers. вЂњHe picked me up by my hair and my ear and smashed my face and body into the wall,вЂќ said Dee Barnes, the petite host of a Fox-TV rap show, describing the night that, she claims, rapper Andre Young attacked her in a Hollywood club.

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