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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Guardian/Music

Bill O'Reilly: not hip-hop's biggest fan

You may have read Steven Wells's piece today about the rap band East Coast Avengers who've released a song calling for the death of Fox News man Bill O'Reilly. Maybe not ones for subtlety, the Boston rappers have given it the title Kill Bill O'Reilly. They're not the first act to run into trouble with the neocon newsreader, though, as the clip above showing Damon Dash and Cam'ron arguing him into a corner proves.

After the jump, more YouTube clips of Bill O'Reilly's misinformed war on rap (and rock'n'roll)...

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Here we find Snoop Dogg adding to his notoriety with this "fuck Bill O'Reilly" talk show comment...

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Then there's rapper Nas, whose disputes with O'Reilly culminated in him delivering a petition to Fox News, protesting about the network's "racist attacks on black Americans" and particularly O'Reilly's use of the term "lynching party" in reference to Michelle Obama.

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It's not just rap Bill hates, though. The highlight of this interview with Marilyn Manson is surely the bit when O'Reilly splutters "They tell me you engaged in a sex act with another man!"

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Maybe the reason for all these outbursts is O'Reilly's secret desire to be a rapper himself...

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