>"Profanity" as a social concept holds no currency in an
>artform. i cant believe anyone would think there should never
>be "curse words" in rap, since there are in real life.

I haven't seen anyone suggest that there shouldn't be any cursing in rap. You're building a straw man there. You're right to point out that profanity is a social construct, but so are all words and the range of meanings we attribute to them. Yet if we can critique linguistic arts at all - whether novels or poetry or rap - we have to be able to critique the word choice. Someone believing that gratuitous profanity *can* contribute to the lessening of a given product's worth is hardly absurd - it's like believing that too many descriptors or convoluted grammar can ruin a good sentence. Don't essentialize the critique by reducing it to some sort of crude moralism.

>Also, buying edited albums makes no sense to me. are you
>afraid of words? madness.

lol - you think you're pointing out the naivete of others, but you're really just highlighting your own... you can't think of *any* reason, not even plain old practical reasons, that someone would want a clean copy of something. Say, for playing in the car when kids or parents or people whose preferences you don't know are around?


-thebigfunk

~ i could still snort you under the table ~