Sleeping with the Enemy (Paris album)

Infobox Album
Name = Sleeping with the Enemy
Type = studio
Artist = Paris


Released = 1992
Recorded = 1992
Genre = Hip-hop
Length =
Label = Scarface
Producer =
Reviews = * Allmusic rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:qyaxqj5bojta link]
Last album = "The Devil Made Me Do It"
(1990)
This album = "Sleeping with the Enemy"
(1992)
Next album = "Guerrilla Funk"
(1994)

"Sleeping With the Enemy" is the second album of militant Black nationalist rapper Paris. Released in 1992, it stimulated much controversy with the songs "Bush Killa" ("a revenge fantasy about the assassination of then president" George H. W. Bush) and "Coffee, Donuts & Death," ("a cop-killing tirade"). It also featured a young DJ Shadow on production.

Originally scheduled for a pre-presidential election release in 1992, the album was eventually released on Paris’ own Scarface Records after Time Warner shareholders and media pressure prevented then Warner-subsidiary Tommy Boy Records from releasing the project.

It has been re-released in a limited release subtitled "The Deluxe Edition"; it was digitally enhanced, reworked, and contains alternate versions.

Track listing

# "The Enema (Live At The White House)"
# "Make Way for a Panther"
# "Sleeping With the Enemy"
# "House Niggas Bleed Too"
# "Bush Killa"
# "Coffee, Donuts & Death"
# "Thinka 'Bout It"
# "Guerrillas in the Mist"
# "The Days of Old"
# "Long Hot Summer"
# "Conspiracy of Silence"
# "Funky Lil' Party"
# "Check It out Ch'all"
# "Rise"
# "Assata's Song"
# "Bush Killa" (Hellraiser Mix)

External links

* [http://www.guerrillafunk.com/paris/sleeping_with_the_enemy/ "Sleeping With The Enemy" entry] on
* [http://www.seditionists.org/HFh/reviews/047.nj35.html "Sleeping With The Enemy" review]
* [http://ubl.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,2879339,00.html "Sleeping With The Enemy" album review]