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156906, and while this does sound WILDE tinfoil, also consider
Posted by Dr Claw, Sun Mar-06-11 01:32 PM
the selective censoring done on old rap albums

sometime in the '90s, even artists that were on that "thug" shit (Lench Mob) comes to mind, got any and all homophobic slurs reversed/edited out if they were on certain labels, but all other cursing remained intact. there wasn't even a real controversy about the homophobia then as there would have been now

though Ice Cube famously got away with it, anytime you mentioned things "Jew" or "Jewish" in the same period would get blanked out (esp. if you were on Interscope-related labels)

all the shit said on rap, and those two things were singled out above anything else, and when you found something out the norm (like Puff making the executive decision to reverse "pregnant" on the Biggie album) it was explained after the fact by the responsible parties