POP/ROCK - Aug. 27, 1991

Not a Threat: After a three-week investigation, the Minneapolis city attorney’s office has determined that the sale of N.W.A’s controversial “Efil4zaggin” album to persons under 18 does not violate Minnesota “harmful to minor” statutes. Last month, Minnesota Atty. Gen. Hubert H. Humphrey III sent a letter to the Musicland Group, the nation’s largest record retail chain, warning executives at the Minneapolis-based firm that the rap group’s album might violate the state’s “harmful to minor” codes. In response, the Minneapolis city attorney’s office transcribed lyrics to 16 songs on the N.W.A record but found that “taken as a whole . . . the sale of the album to minors is not prosecutable.”