This is for the bad little kid in all of us.
NWA's Straight Outta Compton, edited down to only the explicit content.
So for example the title track, which starts:
Straight outta Compton, crazy motherfucker named Ice Cube
From the gang called Niggaz With Attitudes
When I'm called off, I got a sawed off
Squeeze the trigger, and bodies are hauled off
You too, boy, if ya fuck with me
The police are gonna hafta come and get me
Off yo ass, that's how I'm goin out
For the punk motherfuckers that's showin ou
Is then distilled down to:
motherfucker, niggaz, fuck, ass, motherfuckers.
This reduced to me absolute giggles.
Not work safe, not kid safe, not even safe for me.
(Thanks, as usual, to BoingBoing.)
Hello, If your curious about the progression of ‘explicit’ content in late 80’s rap, a sound file creator, FadDeserter, created a piece which documented the backlash to the NWA controversy. After the threat of Gangster Rap on children/society was unleashed, almost every media organization implemented often outlandish censoring programs. The FadDeserter piece “Pre-Censored For Your Audio Enjoyment” documents the effects on the public airwaves of the unproven explicit content. Over 400 censored bits ranging from four letter words to the word censorship itself.
Listen at:
http://noneinc.com/sound/FadDeserter/FadDeserter-PreCensoredForYourAudioEnjoyment.mp3
Yup. That was funny. I'll be giggling for a long time today.