![]() Though very much maligned and misunderstoodīut if you know Eezer he's a real crowd pleaser He's refined, he's sublime, he makes you feel fine His friends call him Eezer and he is the main geezerĪnd he'll vibe about the place like no other man could I mean, there are quite a few classic rock staples that get away with the f-bomb ("Who Are You", for instance), but on rap radio, if they accidentally start to play the unedited version of a song, they'll stop the record and put on the clean edit, because they know the FCC is watching them like a hawk.Īnyway, discuss if you like but mainly i'm looking for more examples.Īnd he goes by the name of Ebeneezer Goode I guess you can tell I'm getting at a double-standard between rock and rap. shit, both MTV and BET blank out the words "white man" in the new Kanye West video. I mean, DMX sure as hell isn't getting away with that kind of thing. ![]() I mean, Mark Knopfler talked about "that little faggot" on one of the biggest MTV hits of the '80's, and even when they play it today they don't edit it. ![]() I've noticed stuff like this for a while now, even pre-Nipplegate, that back in the day radio and MTV were a lot more lax about potentially offensive lyrics than they've been the past couple years. ![]() Joshd was just telling me about seeing the video for "Deep Cover" and being kind of amazed at what they got away with back then.to paraphrase him, can you imagine "187 on the undercover cop" being allowed uncensored on a new song? ![]()
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