So this isn't about the typical "I don't give a ______" "You can suck my ______" we hear...but there are a lot of Rap songs out there where words were censored for all types of reasons...politics and whatever else.

Here's a few that I can think of that we figured out right away...
"And ________ was stealin and robbin em" - Nas

"Alicia ______ dyke bitches" - The Game

"Even off a gallon of Cisco, I could never go Disco...man I ain't from _______!" - DJ Quik

What are some blanks in Rap that you can think of that you immediately knew what the word(s) were...and what are some that you never figured out?

can't think of what the song was
off top.

but i whenever it comes up,
i always think to look it up, but then i forget to...

and when it comes on again,
i realized that i forgot to look it up...

and i never end up looking it up.



>So this isn't about the typical "I don't give a ______" "You
>can suck my ______" we hear...but there are a lot of Rap songs
>out there where words were censored for all types of
>reasons...politics and whatever else.
>
>Here's a few that I can think of that we figured out right
>away...
>"And ________ was stealin and robbin em" -
>Nas
>
>"Alicia ______ dyke bitches" - The Game
>
>"Even off a gallon of Cisco, I could never go Disco...man I
>ain't from _______!" - DJ Quik
>
>What are some blanks in Rap that you can think of that you
>immediately knew what the word(s) were...and what are some
>that you never figured out?

I think it's "kids" tho.

and it would make sense
for the record label to block out kids.

i agree. i think "kids" is the answer.

thanks. lol

Is another one from that album.

ones off the top of my head:

KIM
Marshall Mathers
I'm back

"does this look like a big joke?/ there's a -4- year old little -boy- laying dead with a slit throat/ in your living room"

damn, on a side note, i remember when that album came out, i was in middle school and that song always made me feel mad uncomfortable.. still does actually lol

just about the most disturbing song I've ever heard.

I do laugh, though, at the part where he's like:

"Bullshit you bitch, don't fuckin lie to me
what the fuck's this guy's problem on the side of me?
fuck you asshole, yeah... bite me
Kim, KIMMMM!!!!!!!!....



Why don't you like me?"

I laugh at that part. Otherwise I'm cringing. Haha

I drink more liquor to fuck you up quicker//than you'd wanna fuck me up for sayin' the word __________

I didn't find out a few years ago it was "Baty Boy". And you could only tell that from watching the video, which I never got because I suck at reading lips.

Where he drops two words out. I figured out pretty quick it was "Cuz" and "Blood."

censors cuss words on a few lines that aren't censored throughout the song

that whole lyric gets butchered by censoring, even.

that was my real intro to MURS way back when, I loved that CD

iTunes recently. Had completely forgot about it.

It wasn't always edited, though.

Funny shit, when Puff says "On ya Hot97 everyday, that's a must", V-103 used to blank that shit out, lol.

That was the first line that came to my head. Lyor Cohen and them was not having that shit. lol.

I was spending the summer with my fam in Rochester, NY the summer that dropped, and the pirate radio station played the OG-OG version, completely unedited, no remix verses. From my tastes at the time, it was easily the most grimy song I'd heard at that point.

Outta all the crazy shit he said on that album, that was where they drew the line?

We like Bobby and Whitney
Except without the kiddies
Like _______ _______career
Except without the titties

It's clearly "Pamela Anderson" but I've always wondered why that was masked

>
>
>It's clearly "Pamela Anderson" but I've always wondered why
>that was masked


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They buy property and don't even pay no tax. - Juvenile

I don't know why this line was edited when Ice Cube released 'Black Korea' years prior

Now, who's the next maggot
George Washington, he wore a wig like a ______

This is the first example that came to mind. I notice, despite all of the lewd, violent, and misogynist content on these albums, usually it's only homophobic and anti-semitic slurs that are deemed impermissable by the label. *plays Mos "Rape Over"*


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"I whipped him with a switch and a belt. I never beat him. You beat someone with a stick." - Joe Jackson

>This is the first example that came to mind. I notice, despite
>all of the lewd, violent, and misogynist content on these
>albums, usually it's only homophobic and anti-semitic slurs
>that are deemed impermissable by the label. *plays Mos "Rape
>Over"*

that's why I thought it was wack. if you're gonna censor, censor it ALL.

they played "faggot" and things like that backwards all over that album. which I'd be cool with if they were consistent with all the cussin.

"take a dive like greg louganis with his ________ ass"

I mean obviously it's obvious what it was in general but what was the exact word he used? I never found that out.

dude was on fire

I always imagined it was De La who wanted that out, not necessarily the label

I mean, "gay" was said in several songs before and several after that. So I'd definitely think it was De La.

But yea...Comm's verse on that track was dope as fuuuuuck.

"in fact I get more hoes than Tessa
peep game like a refe-ree
in sole control of my desti-ny
in the best of, 3 outta 5
whip ANYBODY ass in NBA live"

He was the best in the game in this time period IMO.

but that could have been an another edit on his part too.

I can't imagine a label or anyone would censor "punk" so I assume he was just being politically correct.

back in the day had "tight ass" for the edit. dint know it was censored so I always found that line kinda suspect on Com's part but his verse on that joint was so nice I overlooked it.. lol

it has to be "gay ass".

the thought of Common saying that is funny though.

Kev

Madlib says something like

some niggas get sprung off coke
young niggas gettin' sprung off ____


it was edited with a real out-of-place explosion sound on the final version, but on the og you can hear him say "popes". I thought that was a dope line- it was obviously at the height of all that controversy in the Catholic church.

Had a line on I Just Don't Give a F**k about raping the women's swim team that got edited.

Also about raping lesbians...

Em liked rape.


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with a couple of lines changed.

think it was on the promo for slim shady lp. i would imagine you can find it though if you look for it.

>Had a line on I Just Don't Give a F**k about raping the
>women's swim team that got edited.
>
>Also about raping lesbians...
>
>Em liked rape.

when I remixed it, I edited the "raped" but I edited everything

"Let me tell you bout a bitch named _____ /the woman looked so good she'll make you masturbate "

I usually fill in "Kate" just cus it rhynes

Now homey if I go to hell and you make it to the pearly gates
Tell the __________ we got beef
And tell _________ I'm a see him when I see him
And when I see him, I'm a _________
For leavin us out to dry on stariught poverty
For not showin me no signs they watchin over me
Yo! We a new breed in two thousand six
We don't give a fuck about that ________

>Now homey if I go to hell and you make it to the pearly
>gates
>Tell the BOSS MAN we got beef
>And tell HIS ONLY SON I'm a see him when I see him
>And when I see him, I'm a BEAT HIM LIKE THE MOVIE
>For leavin us out to dry on stariught poverty
>For not showin me no signs they watchin over me
>Yo! We a new breed in two thousand six
>We don't give a fuck about that RELIGIOUS BULLSHIT

I just looked for an uncensored version now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXW__wxwiRQ it he said
"Homie if I go to hell, and you make it to the pearly gates, tell that n*gga God, we got beef. And tell that n*gga Jesus I'mma see him when I see him, and when I see him, I'mma beat him like the movie."

Which still seems weird to edit but I guess 50 Cent was under attack for everything at the time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmkcobEpqjA

so apparently he re-recorded his verse to sanitize it a bit, but they edited it anyway

.

Stack chips like hebrews - Sheek (that's sheek right?)

>Stack chips like hebrews - Sheek (that's sheek right?)

No, it's Jada

never understood why that word needed to be censored

does it have too many syllables

is safe sex offensive

>does it have too many syllables
>
>is safe sex offensive

You could allude to, but not be direct. That's different from what happened later in the decade, but "prophylactics" was, back then, like saying the words "penis" and "vagina". A few years before that, saying condom was still considered "dirty". Let's not forget that George Michael's "I Want Your Sex" was turned into "I Want Your OW!" for a number of markets.




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Forget the fact that slang use was able to pass, but if you said something straight forward, it would be censored. It wouldn't be until a few years later, as "safe sex" became something that was talked about more openly, did references like that ease up.





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and you know I had the same exact idea... I disliked when rap albums were selectively censored. controversy sells, so I don't see the point.

one of the biggest ones that come to mind (if it hasn't been mentioned yet) was Mars Co Op on "Clones". I have an idea of what was censored.

Generally, it seems you can't say shit about gays or Jewish people, but you can let all the "niggas" and "bitches" (and sometimes "Black bitches") go without a hitch

>
>one of the biggest ones that come to mind (if it hasn't been
>mentioned yet) was Mars Co Op on "Clones". I have an idea of
>what was censored.
>

I always thought it was "Fly ass frontin' faggots that's now catchin' vapors" and "The snake will be that faggot that rats"

Or something along those lines.


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"with henry james." http://bit.ly/1cIpnM6
"(pushed by) wind." http://bit.ly/180r30E
"one year later." http://bit.ly/1eQNPwI
"broken education." http://bit.ly/16Q6u8A

>>
>>one of the biggest ones that come to mind (if it hasn't been
>>mentioned yet) was Mars Co Op on "Clones". I have an idea of
>>what was censored.
>>
>
>I always thought it was "Fly ass frontin' faggots that's now
>catchin' vapors" and "The snake will be that faggot that
>rats"

"fly ass frontin' *bitches*. . ."

"the snake will be that *bitch* and the rat will be that cool cat."

The Roots/?uest have always been super strict with their no bitch policy. Don't think Thought has ever said it referring to a woman. Dice Raw gets edited somewhere on Things Fall Apart.

the whole bit about smoking weed and drinking Private Stock

You talking about radio?

Cause that wasn't censored on the album, at least my copy. That's what this post is about. Not radio edits.

because that whole section was X-ed out though the rest of the "bad" language was left in

throws me off to this day


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"now I'm looking at this nigga in this ____ and ____ hat/started talkin' all this ____ shit like we was on some ____ shit/my nigga used to bang, but we ain't on no thug shit/I tried to dismantle it, but you know Los Angeles"

I'm thinking it's two colors, then "cuzz", "Blood" (or vice versa).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc9GTTxIai8#t=3m25s

"I'm sorry man, I wasn't tryna steal your light or nothin'/but you're a homosexual, White rappin' Irish ______. I wish that I was Irish, then I could be a _____ too, then I would be as confused as you, and I wouldn't know what to do."

both times, Eminem said "MUSLIM".
and they covered it up with a fake "back masking".

and, while we're on the subject, how bad did Em wreck Whitey Ford on that shit? haha. That song was and is hilarious.

even when it's done to white rappers like Eminem. "Rap" is still seen as a "Black" music and after the Body Count shit (that wasn't rap, but was promoted/led by a rapper)... that was the end of it. Some might even say it was Public Enemy, who didn't actually have anti-Semitic lyrics but was accused of such because of Professor Griff going off at some random event. Public Enemy only went so far as to saying "told the rab(bi) get off the rag", which was rather tame IMO.

I even heard that Ice Cube's Death Certificate album, full of all kinds of crazy 'CISM and off-color venting was censored on reissue. The original 1991 version keeps all the shit intact (think squeeg confirmed it, I never copped the reissue).

The son of *satan* they say my killings too blatant

Tribe albums always had weird censoring. They'd censor out curse words like "ass" sometimes, but leave in "fuck" a few times.

Like on Low End Theory...."take your roly poly fat promoter____to chemical bank and get my cash"

But then they leave in something like "going out like suckas....mothafuckas"

Em had to change my name is cuz the copywright owner didn't like explicit lyrics

I think it was that one, it was one of his early singles.

>The son of *satan* they say my killings too blatant
>
>Tribe albums always had weird censoring. They'd censor out
>curse words like "ass" sometimes, but leave in "fuck" a few
>times.
>
>Like on Low End Theory...."take your roly poly fat
>promoter____to chemical bank and get my cash"
>
>But then they leave in something like "going out like
>suckas....mothafuckas"

Never got a good answer, either.

I can only imagine it was a decision they made after his passing, otherwise why?

when prodigy goes "fuck _______ keith murray and his whole clique", what's the edited part? edited out with a scream sound.

link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyd991mwhX8.

words related to Jewish people are often bleeped even on the most explicit albums

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"too much pregnant mad ____ broke in the fetus/but she don't give a fuck, still suckin' _____ for sneakers"

Rakim-Let the rythym hit em

"you couldn't ___ around with Ra with an army"

"Ain't That A Bitch" from Dirty Money. Always wondered if that was a concept that just went over my head (maybe censor to the beat). And if so, what's the key to the puzzle? Because the censoring is all over the place but the hook is untouched.

On another note, glad this topic is still active. Saw it earlier this year and meant to post. I have tons of -weird spot or don't know that word- censored songs that weren't mentioned.

forgot which Em song that was from, but I always figured he was shook

Rings a bell but I can't remember.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lexLAjh8fPA

I totally missed where you originally said "I forget which Eminem song it's from".

But glad you found it. Thanks.

The first one to get killed/Light skinned nigga with his brains pouring out/At the same burger stand where (censored) hang out/Now this is not a tape recorder saying that he did it/But ever since that day, I was looking at him different."

"This is not a tape recorder sayin that he did it" probably indicates he didn't wanna fully snitch on a person for murdering someone.

and that kendrick censored it himself (same was Em censored Suge tho for dif reasons) but i wonder if the name was ever recorded tho in the first place

I would've recorded the full name, had the engineer chop the audio, and still put the bleep over it. That way, the flow isn't ruined by trying to manually do some crazy start-stop shit, and it leaves people like us on a message board wondering who he's talking about.

more sense

featuring Phat Kat (track 13).
"you think I care about your gold and platinum plaques nigga
i tell you to your face that your ass wack nigga
you know you get your style from *censored*
it scooted, so please don't get it diluted"

sounds like it could be "a black" which would possibly be a shot a Em, or somebody definitely from the D as it sounds like he is speaking to someone specifically.

"You know you got your style from a fuckin black nigga... that scooted."
Referring to Fuzz Scoota-Detroit MC who many claim Eminem bit his flow from.
(At least circa 2000/2001.)

As I figured that was the lyrics, but always wondered WTF is a "Scooted", and now know it's a who, not a what?

>featuring Phat Kat (track 13).
>"you think I care about your gold and platinum plaques nigga
>i tell you to your face that your ass wack nigga
>you know you get your style from *censored*
>it scooted, so please don't get it diluted"
>
>sounds like it could be "a black" which would possibly be a
>shot a Em, or somebody definitely from the D as it sounds like
>he is speaking to someone specifically.

the censored line is a "a fuckin black nigga"
and I think he was indeed swiping at Em

http://www.mediafire.com/?5l3mii957cvwjq9 <--- uncensored version

I make ya prove that it's bullet proof"

Machine Gun Funk-Verse 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOQVSXy1XI0

OG line was
"For the jackers/the jealous a** crackers and tha blue suits/I make ya prove that it's bullet proof"


Wasn't edited on the remix...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL5f8txxvBc

f/Rampage
"I run up in your set like New York City *censored* (crip?)
I can't slip, I beat you down with my vice grip"

"I don't eat pork, I take a Fish Filet
Now I'm knocking out niggas from *censored* to *censored*, Touche"

Maybe "to LA", but then Tupac died so they nixed it. I don't know.

anyone figure it our?

I'm not sure why they blanked it out. But that's what he said. I heard the uncensored version when the original version of the album leaked really early on.

"And yo, for real that nigga K-____ can suck my dick!"
(FYI, that line pre-dated the "no-homo" trend)

This was DMX's first shot back on wax regarding his beef with
K-Solo's "Spellbound" and "Letterman" songs. Not 100% certain
what the purpose of the "K-Solo" edit was, but I do recall that
"Hip-Hop beef" was at an all time low after the Pac/Biggie
murders. Def Jam probably muted Solo's name out...

"and i'm still loco enough to choke you to death w/ a Charleston Chew"

...so all i'd ever hear was

"and i'm still loco enough to ____ you to ____ w/ a _________ Chew DIKIDIKIDIKI"

lollllll i was like wtf is he saying??

"They tell me don't drink & drive/
I say what is this?/
*Pass the Heineken* and mind ya business/
*Roll up a fat one* and pass it around/
Laid back hypnotized to the funky sound/"

I guess they were marketing LL and drug free at the time, but I thought those were dope lines as is...

'Anti-batty boy is who I be'

^ fuck you, Phife.

The group wouldn't be the same without him, but there are lyrics of his that I don't like now.

"coming through the airport
sluggish, walking on crutches
and hit a ________ in the _______ with luggage"

it's "fucking pregnant bitch in the stomach"
since it was a reversal edit i switched it around on Adobe Audition: http://dannyswain.tumblr.com/post/24091510432/

Not really a question of what are they saying, but why was it pre-censored? Did this get radio/video play? I only remember Therapy, Leflaur Laflah Eshkoshka, and Operation Lock Down (and all those were censored/edited different from the original for public play). This would have made pre-censoring for the retail version unnecessary.

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My nine is gone die with me...
Pick up the supply with me...
Be up in the ride with me...
Do a _______ with me... who me?

Based too much on a true story maybe?

During the 2nd verse he says "I'm a Uptown Stunna, what the hell you think?/Ready for war but I ain't no (lyrics reversed). Sounds like he said "I ain't no soldier of no gotdamn tank" being that's when Cashmoney & No Limit were beefing heavy of Master P stealing "Hot Boys" from them, which from a Mannie Fresh interview, stemmed from Master P stealing "I'm Bout It" from an early Cash Money song & ran w/it when he came back from Richmond,CA.

Laink to the song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANhvKLTEivU

plus "Roll up a fat one and pass it around"

those few bars have to be the longest consecutive censored bits in recorded music.

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There aren't any explicit remixes of 'God's Son.' Same goes for 'Stillmatic.'

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"Come to your house like a check from Columbia House."

dope beats but the censoring was too fucking annoying

"You couldn't fuck around the Ra with an army"

It was heard on the 12" remix, but not on the album version. I can understand the single/video mixes, but the album? It was also censored on the acapella mix, so one wasn't able to drop the "fuck" inside of the mix and make a custom edit.


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...look into how imbalanced that was in doing so. Maybe it was just about "the product", getting it out, and not caring about consistency.


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