... , as its new spokesman to appeal to a more urban audience. The rapper filmed a commercial for the soda makers, but it was soon pulled from the airwaves after hip-hop opponent, Bill O"Reilly, trashed Pepsi on his talk show, The O"Reilly Factor, for hiring a so-called "gangsta" rapper to sell their product. He claimed Ludacris" lyrics were too vulgar and tasteless. Three ... Osbournes were recruited as new spokespeople for the company. Anyone who has ever viewed their MTV reality series knows they are very vulgar and profane as well. Def Jam founder Russell Simmons declared a boycott of al...

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... like that and if you're a real women, you're classy and elegant. Those lyrics wouldn't necessarily affect you. You'd just groove to the music" (Farley 78). Richard Shaw, Bushwick Bill, says: "I call women bitches and hos because all the women I've met since I've been out here are bitches and hos." When asked, at the [National Association of Black Journalists ... also thinks that rap should not be the blame for what young people are doing today because movies also show violence, rapes, and people being killed (Marroitt, "Hard-core" A1+). Russell Simmons, CEO of Def Jam Recordings, says t...

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