I would like to see a new music that is 100% obscene. Yes I know, US Hip Hop does a pretty good job of that already, thank you. But US Hip Hop has tenderized these days. The majority of this music has taken to living within innuendo.

Clean versions were the versions that used to keep us alive long enough to be able to get to the store to get the explicit version. Now a lot of the songs on the radio are the same version as on CD. What used to be a procedure to be able to be played on public airways is now its own language. In there lies its appeal, the songs play by the rules but are at the same breaking every rule in the book.

But what if an explicit music never issued clean versions of its songs? Or, what if you couldn’t edit a song because the meaning rested in the lyrics? It would be a living disapproval of the common notion that ‘there is always a better word.’ This music would never be able to be played in Crate&Barrel. It would never be swallowed by MUSAK. Everybody would love it after work but couldn’t love it at work.

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