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Page 2A - THE CHARLOTTE POST - Tuesday, November 23,1993 Rappers score with Panthers tune lease to all other area and surrounding radio stations. WCKZ-FM in Charlotte plays "The Carolina Pan thers" now. It will be available to the public for purchase Jan. 1. Hicks said his future goals are to live his life right and to show young brothers and sisters they can make It hap pen. 'You Just have to have the will power and stick with it, because nothing comes easy," he said. You have to go for it and be truly yourself," he said. PHOTO/CALVIN FERGUSON Chris Hicks and Ron Carter (on keyboards) wrote and performed 'The Carolina Panthers." By Vera Witherspoon . THE CHARLOTTE POST ; The Carolina Panthers don’t take to a football field until 1995, but Charlotte's : National Football League : (NFL) team Is already having its praises sung. • "The Carolina Panthers" is • a rap record written and pro duced by Ron "Slick Jack" : Carter, president of Too Iced ; Music and Chris "Shotyme" ; Hicks. "The Carolina Pan thers" is part of an album to be released later. ! Wanda 'Too Nice" Davis is ; the president of Too Nice [ Productions and the special events coordinator for Too Iced Music. • "The music came about the ! same night they were waiting : on the decision for the team," [ said Carter. "The following day my rap [artist, Shotyme, called me and said he had written some : lyrics about the team. We got together the next day and that Is how it happened," he said. "It was not planned." "(Carter) was doing a track for something else. I had an other track in mind to go with the IjTlcs, but it was far different from what he had done," Hicks said. " The Carolina Panthers' " is a rap, which is called hip- hop and R & B. It has a cross over appeal, because all races want to dance to it," Carter said. The group is working to make the rap the official Panthers tune. "Negotiations are under way for it to be the official rap song. 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