Okay, so I live in Atlanta, and have been known on occasion to listen to Rap/Hip hop music. I just heard the remix for Usher's song Confessions (different than the album version) with some fairly disgusting lyrics added in.
For those of you that haven't heard the song, it is Usher confessing to his girlfriend that he got another girl pregnant. That and the next song, "Burn", deal with his girlfriend leaving him because he cheated.
Now, the new lyrics in Confessions left me shocked. They go something like:
"Pray that she abort it; If she's talkin' about keeping it; One hit to the stomach; then she's leaking it"
Holy crap. It takes a lot to make me squeamish, but I was repulsed.
I''m not a big fan of the genre, but mostly because I don''t seem to have the ''bass>ALL'' gene. Those lyrics don''t bother me any more than the usual graphic depictions of murder, rape, etc - it''s all pretty bad.
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Dear god you must be f*cking kidding me. I''m at a loss for words.
I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
Watch me learn to draw.
About what? The lyrics or that I don''t like rap?
I never minded piracy. Anyone who minds about piracy is full of sh*t. Anyone who pirates your game wasn't going to buy it anyway! -Warren Spector
GWJFFL Pro 2010 Champion
I''m guessing the lyrics, Minase...
Money can't buy you happiness...but it can buy you a boat big enough to sell right up next to it!-David Lee Roth
You never know. I''ve been places where complaining about the music was a good way to get your ass kicked, and I didn''t mean to offend anyone.
I never minded piracy. Anyone who minds about piracy is full of sh*t. Anyone who pirates your game wasn't going to buy it anyway! -Warren Spector
GWJFFL Pro 2010 Champion
The lyrics. Definetly the lyrics. The word ""indefensible"" comes to mind. Of course, the idiotic ""keeping it street"" counter-argument is probably the defense for this.
I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
Watch me learn to draw.
Hehe. I''m sure Usher would just say that he was representing the streets and keeping it real, yo.
Too bad most of his fans who buy this stuff are in the suburbs and would piss themselves if they ever had to walk through somewhere like Compton after dark. Perhaps he should keep it real by rapping about driving his girlfriend to planned parenthood in his dad''s SUV instead.
I never minded piracy. Anyone who minds about piracy is full of sh*t. Anyone who pirates your game wasn't going to buy it anyway! -Warren Spector
GWJFFL Pro 2010 Champion
Just for the record: It''s not Usher that rapped the line, it was Joe Budden.