Time Warner Accused of 2nd Inflammatory Rap Album : Music: A sheriffs’ group charges company is linked to unreleased record whose cover shows gunman waiting to attack President Bush. Firm denies allegations.

Media giant Time Warner Inc. is under fire again--this time for its alleged involvement with a rap album said to contain artwork and lyrics advocating the assassination of President Bush.

Officials at the New York State Sheriffs’ Assn.--one of many police groups already advocating a boycott of Time Warner for its distribution of rap-metal artist Ice-T’s “Cop Killer” song--charged Thursday that the proposed cover of San Francisco rapper Paris’ album depicts a man with an automatic weapon about to ambush President Bush.

The Sheriffs’ Assn. says that the upcoming album contains a song about shooting the President and another called “Coffee, Doughnuts and Death” that they maintain glorifies the killing of police officers.

Some of the lyrics in dispute:

. . . As an example so all the blue coats know

Ya get poached when ya f--- with black folk

. . . Black folk can’t be nonviolent now

I’d rather just lay ya down, spray ya down

Till justice come around

Cuz without it there’ll be no peace . . .

“Time Warner has absolutely no social conscience whatsoever,” said Christopher O’Brien, deputy executive director of the association. “All they are is a bunch of greedy pigs who care more about lining their own pocketbooks than they do about the police officers who walk the streets or the President of the United States.”

O’Brien, who said a source at Time Warner provided the lyrics and artwork to the Sheriffs’ Assn., said the Paris album is scheduled to be released by Tommy Boy Records, a subsidiary of Time Warner, in September.

Addressing the controversy late Thursday, White House Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater said: “We are concerned that this represents a serious threat to the President. Whatever the motivation of Time Warner, we feel it represents--in the best case--bad taste and bad judgment and--in a worse case--a serious physical threat, and we are asking the appropriate legal authorities to take a look at this case and see if further action should be necessary.”

Officials at Tommy Boy refused to return calls Thursday.

While the rap artist has identified his label as Tommy Boy, which is partly owned by Time Warner, Robert J. Morgado, chairman of the Warner Music Group, denied in a statement Thursday that the album would be produced by any company affiliated with his corporation.

“Let me be very clear,” Morgado said. “First, the proposed album in question was never released for sale to the public. Second, the proposed album described in some news stories will not be produced by any company in the Warner Music Group. Third, we have not and would not approve the album cover artwork depicted in some news stories.”

The Sheriffs’ Assn. has asked New York State Comptroller Ned Regan to sponsor a resolution at the media company’s annual shareholders’ meeting demanding that Time Warner cease distributing such material. The meeting is July 16 in Beverly Hills.

If that resolution is not implemented, O’Brien said, his group will request that the comptroller sell the 1.2 million Time Warner shares owned by the New York state and local employees retirement system.

However, Cynthia Munk, assistant press secretary for the comptroller, said Thursday that Regan would neither attend the shareholders’ convention nor sell Time Warner shares.

“Divestment is not even a possibility,” Munk said.

Times staff writer James Gerstenzang in Washington contributed to this story.