Each Friday I pick a song–new, old, borrowed, blue–that’s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it.

This is “Freedom of Speech” by Ice-T:

There’s been a lot of talk about freedom of speech lately, and where it starts, and where it ends, and so on and so forth.  This is from 1989, responding to very different circumstances to those that have raised the issue recently.