Rapper Willie D.’s New Song Criticizes Rodney G. King : Pop: Other lyrics call for violence against judges, congressmen and ‘brown-nosing’ black leaders. Single, due out July 30, is raising concerns.

Rodney G. King, the black motorist whose videotaped beating by white Los Angeles police officers triggered international outrage, is the subject of what may be the next cause celebre in rap.

In a record by Houston rapper Willie D., King is accused of being a “sellout” for having called for an end to the violence during the Los Angeles riots last spring.

In the wake of the recent political fallout over lyrics and comments made by rappers Ice-T and Sister Souljah, music industry insiders say that Willie D.’s “Fk Rodney King” is already raising concerns.

The song--due July 30 on Rap-A-Lot Records, which is distributed by Los Angeles-based Priority Records--also calls for the violent eradication of judges, congressmen and “brown-nosing” black leaders who allow police to brutalize inner-city residents. The single will be shipped to major record chain accounts by CEMA, a Capitol-EMI company that is the nation’s third-largest record distribution group.

Sample lyrics:

F--- Rodney King ...

F--- that motherf----- sellout ho

They need to beat his ass some mo .

Fool’s talkin ‘bout stop the violence . . .

This . . . is deeper than Vietnam

And there ain’t no room for an Uncle Tom

King, who was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving by California Highway Patrol officers in Orange early Thursday, could not be reached for comment.

The song takes King to task for a televised plea he made to calm rioting after a Simi Valley jury declined to convict four police officers accused of beating him. At the time, King termed the rioting “not right” and asked viewers to “try to work it out. We can all get along here.”

In a telephone interview from Houston, Willie D., a former member of the controversial rap group the Geto Boys, said he wrote the song to vent frustration he felt with King’s response to the riots.

“I feel like Rodney King turned his back on black people and on himself,” Willie D., whose real name is William Dennis, said Thursday. “ . . . Rodney King is a sellout.”

The Geto Boys became the center of controversy in 1990 when Geffen Records refused to distribute a graphically violent and sexually explicit Def American album by the Houston-based group. Digital Audio Disc Corp. also declined to press the compact disc version of the album before Time Warner agreed to distribute the record.

In his new song, Willie D. also mocks black leaders and lawmakers who call upon African-Americans to work within the system for a peaceful resolution to urban chaos. Poking fun at pacifists, the record takes a biting swipe at the classic spiritual “We Shall Overcome,” a tune Willie D. introduces sardonically as the “Negro National Anthem.”

F--- all that singing

I’m gonna be too busy swinging

... I still got a lotta grudges

It’s high time that we take out some judges

And some congressmen and senators who cheat us

And all of these so-called black leaders

During the interview, the 25-year-old rapper described his song as a “call for a revolution.”

“The way to get the control back is not by protesting,” he added. “It’s not by picketing. It’s by violence. Ain’t no other way. But I’m not advocating anything here. I’m just stating my opinion. It just so happens that a lot of other people who listen to the song, they say, ‘Hell, yeah, that’s my opinion too.’ If somebody decides to go out and do something that I mention in my song, it’s not because I say to go out and do it, it’s because they want to do it.”

Jerry Arca, spokesman for Rebuild L.A., the extragovernmental task force headed by Newport Beach entrepreneur Peter V. Ueberroth, said he thinks the song telegraphs the wrong message to a city during a period of crisis.

“Everybody’s got a right to say what’s on their mind,” Arca said. “But a song like this sends the wrong message to everybody, no matter what color.

“In our opinion, the only answers to this city’s problems are collaboration and cooperation. The minute you begin isolating yourself, you start down a road to self-destruction.”

However, John Cager, minister of youth at the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles, defended the rapper’s right to say what he wanted.

“My opinion is that this is just a song,” Cager said. “This guy bears no social responsibility. He’s just an artist trying to make money. I think one thing we tend to do--especially the media--is try to find issues where there are none. There is no one who stands above honest criticism. I don’t know, perhaps in this song, maybe he’s raising some valid issues. That’s his First Amendment right.”