7. "This happened often in the 90’s. Likely because of videos and some" In response to In response to 0
songs blowing up off MTV/BET which would be the radio edit versions of songs.
For me growing up in a STRICT household where I wasn’t allowed to buy albums with the Explicit tag on them, those radio/video versions were all I knew. I still remember one of the worst times I got in trouble as a kid was my dad finding the unedited cassette single for Hit ‘Em Up which had the unedited version of How Do You Want It as the B side. He made me sit down and listen to both songs with him. He was PISSED.
Given that I remember being shocked when I went to college and started buying albums from the early 90’s and hearing the actual unedited versions of songs I thought I knew…