"I'm all for America, fuck the government / Tell that C. Delores Tucker slut to suck a dick / Motherfuck ducked, what the fuck? son of a bitch / Take away my gun, I'm gonna tuck some other shit".
Eminem, featured on "Rap Game" by D12
In 1971 C. Delores Tucker became the first African-American woman Secretary of State in the US, serving for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania until 1977.
Ms. Tucker dedicated much of the last few years of her life to removing sexually explicit lyrics from rap and hip-hop tracks, citing a concern that the lyrics were misogynistic and threatened the moral foundation of the African American community.
Called "narrow-minded" by some rappers who often called her out in their lyrics, Ms. Tucker picketed stores that sold rap music and bought stock in labels like Sony, Time Warner, and others in order to protest hip-hop at their shareholders' meetings.
She also fought against the NAACP's decision to nominate late rapper Tupac Shakur for one of its Image Awards .
Tucker subsequently filed a $10 million lawsuit against his estate for comments that the rapper made in his song "How Do U Want It?" on the album All Eyez on Me, in which Shakur rapped "Delores Tucker you's a motherfucker / Instead of trying to help a nigga you destroy your brother".
As talented as you were Tupac, you could not have been more wrong. C. Delores Tucker wasn't trying to destroy you like so many around you -- she was trying to save you!
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