RECORD LABEL RELEASES RAP ALBUM ATTACKING DEA

Dallas - A record label whose founder was under investigation by the Drug
Enforcement Administration is releasing an album that taunts the DEA and
talks about killing informants, The Dallas Morning News reported Monday.

The boasts by Scarface, whose album is being released today, stem from a
letter by Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., sent on behalf of the rapper's
label, Rap-A-Lot Records, and its owner James A. Prince, the newspaper said.

The investigation by the DEA and Houston police was frozen after Waters
wrote the letter to Atty. Gen. Janet Reno, the newspaper reported.

However, the agency denies the investigation has been dropped.

"Can't be stopped, not even by a badge," one song declares. The song
mentions two DEA agents by name.

In another song, Scarface raps:

"I'm tellin' you dog, that even if you getting relief,

"how the (expletive) is you gonna live on these streets,

"if you got that jacket on your back

"You a rat."

Prince, who has not been charged as a result of the investigation, has said
his Houston-based company has done nothing illegal. Phone calls placed
Monday by The Associated Press to the offices of Prince and Waters were not
returned.

Prince has been arrested twice on minor drug and weapons charges that later
were dropped, and his label subsequently released a 1993 Geto Boys album
that contained lyrics in which the rappers threaten to shoot local police.
Prince complained on the best-selling album of a DEA "conspiracy" to target
his record label.

A video from the album, "Crooked Officer," was banned by MTV because it
depicted the shooting of a police officer. In 1996, that song and the
group's other raps became a presidential campaign issue when Republican
candidate Bob Dole cited the Geto Boys as an example of declining American
mores.

The DEA investigation moved slowly until 1998, when the agency formed a
task force with Houston police. Several Rap-A-Lot employees were soon arrested.

Prince and his associates, according to Waters' August 1999 letter to Reno,
feared for their lives because of what they called racist police harassment
and use of excessive force. Waters, in an appeal to DEA officials, cited
the fact that the lead agent in the case, Jack Schumacher, had been
previously involved in six fatal police shootings.

Law officers say each shooting involving Schumacher was justified. One of
Schumacher's supervisors, James Nims, wrote in a September 1999 memo that
all of Prince's complaints were "completely false."

The new album by Scarface, whose real name is Brad Jordan, is entitled "The
Last of a Dying Breed." Jordan, one of several Rap-A-Lot associates
arrested in a DEA inquiry, pleaded guilty in 1999 to misdemeanor marijuana
charges in connection with the case. However, on the CD, he says he does
not sell drugs and was framed, the News said.