taking sides/s&d: profanity obscuration techniques

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sound fx (loads of rap, last time i remember hearing BOING! etc it was in nore's "nothin" i think)/enthusiastic exclamations (DMX!!)/ sudden slowdown (much dancehall)/substitution (work it's "cha-cha")...

― m. (mitchlnw), Friday, 4 June 2004 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Running it backwards is the tish.

― briania (briania), Friday, 4 June 2004 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

A friend pointed out how quaint it is on Brass Monkey when the Beasties say "C'mon everybody let's get fffffa".

― frankE (frankE), Friday, 4 June 2004 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

additionally, what was the last word to undergo de-censorship? ('nigga' is frequently allowed on radio here [south africa], perhaps because it feels less like racial slur than rap slang)

― m. (mitchlnw), Friday, 4 June 2004 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

tangentially...

i was watching the real world last week, and realized that, in the course of one conversation, MTV used both "blanking" and "beeping" to cover profanity. i think its another of their editing strategies employed to manufacture/heighten drama, but it was interesting.

― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 4 June 2004 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I heard "99 Problems" on Radio 1 the other week, there was more drop-out than there was rap.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Friday, 4 June 2004 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

m, I saw tits in a South African music video being broadcast on Channel O at 7.30 in the evening. Zulu Tits. You guys are remarkably relaxed, huh?

De La Soul Is Dead's "Crocker" sample wins this thread.

― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Friday, 4 June 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

You can lie, e.g. The Kinks' Apeman: the lyrics claim the son says 'fogging up my eyes'

― Jez (Jez), Saturday, 5 June 2004 10:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Drop-out is the best. It just sounds so funny, especially when there's so many of them that something like 1/3 of the rap is missing.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 5 June 2004 11:07 (twenty-one years ago)

don't want no short short man

― 20, Saturday, 5 June 2004 12:07 (twenty-one years ago)

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