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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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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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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