The FCC ruled that the song contained sexual references that were intended to shock a group of people (Boehlert, 2 para.). ... Not only did Elton, an openly bisexual man, celebrate Eminem's prohibited lyrics by singing in the rap star's controversial performance, but he also gave the hero a sympathetic hug on stage at the end of the song. ... The government cannot ban a song, but Wal-Mart can and frequently does. ... Violence in rap songs has also taken center stage and is getting their share of criticism and attempted censorship. ... Many other types of music artists use their...

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It is not only rap music trying to be censored it is in all types of music. ... They announced they would not air songs with the word's "bitch" and "ho" to refer to women. ... Maxine Waters, whose district includes part of South Central Los Angeles, home to many rappers, said that these young people referring to these rappers are being denied the opportunity to say who they are. ... You also may remember when hard-core rapper Ice-T wrote the song cop killer. ... Louis is forbidden from playing the Jefferson Airplane hit "White Rabbit" because of drug references in the song's lyrics, ...

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It is not only rap music trying to be censored it is in all types of music. ... Some radio stations announced they would not air songs with the word's "bitch" and "ho" to refer to women. ... A person or a child is going to hear them regardless of any song with profanity in them. ... I think a child has a better chance of hearing profanity in there own home or school then by hearing it in a song. ... You may remember when hard-core rapper Ice-T wrote the song cop killer. ...

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Rap is their outlet for anger. However, rap is the most censored form of music on the market today. ... It is a fact of life for musicians, especially rappers, that the original versions of their songs often get cleaned up just so they can be aired on the radio or shown on television. The trend of releasing two versions of songs is not new. ... But why do artists have to make special, "clean" songs just to be heard? ...

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Parents and experts argue that rappers and musicians use vulgar, profane, sexually explicit lyrics to target the teenage audience. ... In 1940 NBC banned 147 songs. ... In an attempt to let radio stations know what types of songs were unacceptable sent a list of 22 drug related songs to radio stations. ... Ultimately these songs were banned from radio broadcast. ... Luther Campbell, of the rap group 2 Live Crew released a single titled "Banned in the USA" in response to the labeling. ...

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Music now in days especially RAP is censured very strictly because of their lyrics, and by what their lyrics can promote. Its true rap artists now in days use a great deal of obscenities, violence and foul language in their lyrics that can create censorship. Many adults think that by having this kind of lyrics in their songs they can promote violence or hatred to other individuals. ... Movies can sometimes be censured equally as lyrics from songs because they promote ideas of violence, sex and drugs among other things. ...

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Is it in a song where every word needs to be censored? ... Rap is a genre mostly focused toward the African culture. ... A rap artist can have a hit single that is played over the radio and has censored out the four-letter words and sexual words, but mysteriously on the album it contains more than to be expected. ...

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Songs may express musicians" hopes, their joys, and their sorrows. ... One lyric from a Eminem song describes the importance of music to kids. "Or for anyone who's ever been through s--- in their lives Till they sit and they cry at night wishin' they'd die Till they throw on a rap record and they sit, and they vibe" So what is wrong with these artists lyrics? ... If we censor these books and change parts of them to make it more "appropriate", the point of the book would be lost, as the point of songs are lost when they are changed to become more "appropriate". ... Ho...

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People who disagree with a message in a song either reject it and never let it touch their CD player again or create a twisted definition of the song that fits their beliefs, which no one can dispute. ... All children attributed the theme of the song to pride in the USA, the singer's birthplace. ... The professors asked a group of high school students to identify the lyrical themes of their favorite songs. Of the 662 songs the students listed, the students said that only 46 of them were about sex, violence, or Satanism. ... The correlation between rap and gang activity or heavy metal a...

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"Gangsta" rap is all about live a life of violence and indecency, and this is what the children of our society are looking up too. Music with lyrics, as harsh as these need to be censored, because with the lessons these songs are teaching, the future of our country will be in the hands of "gangsta's." ... He, like many other political figures, opposes the lyrics in many of today's songs, but unlike others, he is standing up and fighting for what he sees as right. ...

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Is a rap group portraying real life in the ghetto, or a heavy-metal band singing about suicide, protected as a singer's "artistic expression"? Or do these songs really influence society, becoming a cause of violence and hate instead of merely an expression of them? ...

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