Accidentally buying clean CDs unappreciation
hogginthefogg
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D**n you, Amazon!
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Years ago on the diary of Chris Rock on MTV he goes to some major music chain buys some CD's drives off and a few lines into the first CD he realizes it's the clean version. He wips around and goes back to the store and bitches them about about "who the hell wants a rap CD with out cuss words!?!?!?!?!"
For those that don't know sometime they put an "E" in the SKU or barcode number which indicates edited. This isn't always the case but it can help.
Clean rap CDs should not even exist. If you can't handle a little profanity, then you shouldn't be listening to rap.
If rap music in its unadulterated form makes you or your guests uncomfortable, then you don't need to be playing it at your wedding.
[archaic]if listening to rap music in this annoying fashion offends the delicate sensibilities of your guests than you shouldn't even be getting married.[/archaic]
I remember buying N.W.A. "Straight Outta Compton" on CD at a pawn shop in the late 90's, and thinkin' why would someone pawn this? Because of no "Fuck The Police" on this fuckin' censored version Dumbass me. It was repawned a month later. No way could you listen to that CD without the explicit lyrics.
All I can say in defense of clean versions is that some of us occasionally play stuff on the radio and thanks to the FCC I can't play all the naughty words that give my favorite tunes their spicy flavor. That said, I probably wouldn't (intentionally) buy an all clean album, I prefer to have both the Clean and Street edits on the 12".
'sweet potato pie' is way different in unedited form
realheadz
I ALWAYS play the radio edit of "Punks Jump Up To Get Beat Down."
What's embarrasing to me is going back to the store and saying "Oops, I made a mistake, I want the dirty version, Mr. Shopkeeper."
Also, I mostly listen to most pop / top 40 / hip hop on the radio, and therefore grow fond of the clean edit. Then, when I hear the original, I'm like, 'what the fuck is this shit?'
I guess there are others who are guilty of liking the clean versions better...
So do I (or so I did; haven't played any Brand Nubian in a minute), but that is another topic altogether.
SEE ALSO:
Geto Boys: "Mind Playing Tricks On Me" (clean)
Wu Tang Clan: Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (clean)
OL' DIRTY BASTARD - "Got Your Money" (edit) : buries the "N" word on it, which is one positive clean version to play out
earlier today I actually had the painfully tedious job of transforming my finished mixtape (music recorded by youth at my rec center gig) into a clean version. so sad. 3 tracks had to be cut altogether and one song has enough chunks in reverse as to make it psychedelic.
Is there an unedited version of "Ain't That A Bitch" by UGK around?
Also, why in the hell is "Stay Fly" edited on the explicit version of 3-6's CD? This is the new version that came out a year later where they added "It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp" and I guess they decided to switch out the dirty version of "Stay Fly" for the hell of it?!
BOTH AWFUL
I've been kinda shocked in recent years upon hearing the for-real version after becoming quite familiar with the radio edits... "Some Cut" and "In Da Club" come to mind as album versions that were almost overwhelming at first...
I've made this mistake a few times. Once with Weebie and Boosie's Gangsta Music but their voices are so high that it sounds normal, well until one of the features shows up then I realize it's s&c'ed. Also did it with a few of those rap-a-lot reissues that amazon didn't label correctly.
Actually, I always held onto the clean copy I have of that album,
because I really get a kick out of it. The fact that they recorded
entirely different vocal tracks, instead of bleeping out the curses,
makes for some very entertaining contrasts. Sometimes, as is the case
with the Geto Boys pretty often as well, the clean lyrics will be more
clever than just leaning on the old F bomb in every line.
SHAME ON A NUH THAT TRY TO RUN GAME ON A NUH
YES.
Back when BMG and Columbia House were the thing, I remember getting a clean vesion of "Enter the Wu." I was severely peeved after anxiously waiting for its arrival. At least they put in sword-slashes and what-not over the expletives.
just saw rocco's post above. funny.
was that directed at me, mark?
hahahaha
before i knew how to undo and use the tascam, i'd make mixes live and realized i put on the clean edit when i meant to use the original halfway through the tape. that was no fun.