Censored Hip-Hop Albums

[Mzo]

Right, so, some member of my family bought my 12-year old sister the latest Outkast double CD thingy. That's cool, they're fucking great, right?

Anyway, I asked to borrow it for the long ride to work. I pop it in and, guess what? All the "bad words" have been taken out. I guess this is the Wal Mart version or something.

Funny thing is, it doesn't matter. The context is still there, and they're still talking about sex whether or not they say "fuck" or "pussy." It's hilarious.

I just can't imagine someone listening to this and saying, "No, no, this can not be sold to minors as it is." Then, they listen to the same songs talking about the same subject matter, just with the odd cuss word missing, and say "Ah, that's better, sell it to everyone!"

A song called "Spread" just can't be made "clean," no matter how hard you try. All you're doing is ruining the music.

[Dolemite]

Chingy did the same thing- he has "dirty" and "clean" versions of his CD out (the one with Holidae Inn on it). Gay.

[Rtificial]

Yea when I was younger I remember buying Eazy E's- Eazier said than done album and getting pretty pissed when I found out it was censored.

They used to make clean / regular versions of a lot of albums back in the day. This was also a time when parental advisory stickers were first going around. I think now they just do it for stuff that's gonna get lots of airplay, which I don't even buy so I don't have to worry about that anymore.

[Mzo]

My point was that they're not clean at all.

You just can't do it. I'll post some lyrics when I get home, it's hilarious.

[BioMechanic]

"Bleeping" is pathetic. In albums and on TV. It's not like people are going "Geez, what could they possibly be saying??????" The censors aren't really censoring anything - in fact, they end up drawing more attention to the lyrics this way.

It's funny when TV stations get someone other than the actors to dub over profanity on movies. It's like watching Kung Fu Theater.

[Doug Branches]

The censored version of Mallrats is the best example of that.

[g0zen]

Yeah like in Die Hard with a Vengence, they had a different guy speak over Samuel L. Jackson's lines whenever he'd cuss (which was like, 3/4ths of his dialogue). My favorite was, "Man, MacLaine you white (cut to different voice) melon farmer!"

[Jeremy]

You should hear the censored verisons of Kevin Smith flicks, particularly Mallrats, which just gets butchered by it. Censoring in this form just ends up hurting the piece, and really, it'd be better for the stuff to either not be shown/sold at all rather than have it maimed like it ends up being.

[cigsthecat]

The Big Lebowski censored for TV is hilarious, really a must watch. The dubs of the "this is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass" bit are particularly special.

[Calliander]

Chingy did the same thing- he has "dirty" and "clean" versions of his CD out (the one with Holidae Inn on it). Gay.

Why were you listening to Chingy's album?