The Chopping Block

If Senator Bill Ratliff's budget rider becomes law, the state's pension fund will have to sell all of the stock it owns in the companies listed below; each company is followed by a partial list of its subsidiary record labels and a more or less random sampling of artists whose material may be found offensive under the Ratliff rap rider.

SEAGRAM COMPANY LTD.

Geffen Records

Hole, Bloodhound Gang, Snot, White Zombie

MCA Records

Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Who

Interscope

Universal Studios, a Seagram subsidiary, owns half of Interscope, which distributes recordings for other indie labels including Death Row (Tupac Shakur, Snoop Doggy Dogg), Nothing (Marilyn Manson), and Aftermath (Dr. Dre)

TIME WARNER INC.

Atlantic Recording Corp.

Lil' Kim

Elektra Entertainment Group

Metallica, Pantera, Motley Crue

Warner Bros. Recording

Prodigy

PHILIPS ELECTRONICS

PolyGram

Ass Ponies, Chuck D, Public Enemy, Redman, P.J. Harvey

(PolyGram subsidiaries include Island, Polydor, Motown, A&M)

THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY

Hollywood Records

Danzig, Insane Clown Posse

SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA

Columbia

Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Iggy Pop

Epic

Pearl Jam, Merle Haggard