Reversing, scrambling, bleeping etc. perfectly non-profane random words

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NOT FOR ME, SUCKERS!!!

GUN! GUN! GUN! GUN!

I pondered all the rude and things he could do...

but he "takes a gun to school"

Odd, that even saying that is too banny for airplay, even though they say he's a dick for it.

I don't give a fuck if she's [pregnant], I want the baby rings and the Number One Mom pendant.

See Marshall Mathers LP for more post-Columbine hysteria.

I take seven [kids] from [Columbine], put 'em all in a line...

Don't forget all the personal private citizen shit on Marshall Mathers that his lawyers made him lose.

There's a [four year old boy] lyin' dead with a slit throat in your living room, ha-ha

Which is it bitch, Mrs. Briggs or Ms. Mathers?/It doesn't matter your [attorney Fred Gibson's a] faggot!

"You should do what we do, stack chips like [hebrews]"

OOOPS!

Though bleeping "about to make some bodies turn cold" on " Warren G's Regulate" and letting Johnny Cash shoot Delia in the side and then somewhere fatal was a boner move.

the latest completely normal word that MTV is censoring is "snitch," they bleeped it out of Obie Trice's new song and made him change the title from "Snitch" to something else too.

"Fuck that S*CROCKA!!"

MTV wouldn't let Moby sing "That's when I reach for my revolver" so he recorded the line as "That's when I realized it's over."

Also I heard a live Bowie show on the radio in the 70s in which they bleeped "suicide" in "Rock and Roll Suicide." Guess they thought we'd all kill ourselves if we heard that.

I don't remember them bleeping gun on all those Nirvana singles containing the word.

He had fans suggest new lyrics. His fave was "That's when I reach for my chihuahua. That's when he barks and runs away."

MTV has a flaky policy against advertising stuff in videos.

Thus:

"I wanna be heard on your [Hot 97] every day, that's my word" - Puff Daddy, "It's All About The Benjamins"

"Call [1-900-MIXALOT], and kick them nasty thoughts." - Sir Mix-A-Lot, "Baby Got Back"

Dunno how "Pass The Courvosier" got on there at all!

Black Eyed Peas's 'Let's Get It Started' was originally 'Let's Get Retarded' (Don't ask me how I know this).

I know this because I have the Black Eyed Peas album which is fucking awesome.

the latest completely normal word that MTV is censoring is "snitch," they bleeped it out of Obie Trice's new song and made him change the title from "Snitch" to something else too.

-- Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Friday, 23 June 2006 14:13 (10 months ago)

The station I've been to listening to omits the word "pornography" from Flo-Rida - "Low," changing a line to "like a p-p-p-poster". This is an internet station too, wtf

weird, I've never heard that word edited out of there

Also I heard a live Bowie show on the radio in the 70s in which they bleeped "suicide" in "Rock and Roll Suicide." Guess they thought we'd all kill ourselves if we heard that.

― nickn (nickn), Friday, June 23, 2006 4:02 PM

They also bleeped "tongue" from "Width Of A Circle" ("his tongue swollen with devil's love") which I didn't get at all, but then I thought maybe he wrote it as "cock" and was forced by his label at the time to change it, but then sang it as written at the show.

Was "Rock And Roll Nigger" ever censored? I cannot recall ever hearing it on the radio myself... Any other songs drop N-bombs outside of the hip-hop realm and how was it handled?

Another song is "Woman is the Nigger of the World" by John and Yoko and I think I've heard it on the radio, but can't remember if it was bleeped or not.

The Gun Club have a song that uses the word, but that probably got no airplay.

I'm always puzzled when MTV bleeps out the word "gun," but can't recall a specific example.

Moby's just peachy cover of that famous Mission of Burma hit, "That's When I TELL HER THAT IT'S OVER".

Oddly enough, just the other day I was looking for Dungeon Family's "Trans DF Express" on Youtube, and MTV (or whatever channel was showing it when it was recorded) bleeps out "gun" so that Cee-Lo's line goes "I am the one and only son of a machine [awkward pause]".

Also the US version of the Robyn album reverses the word "Nazi" on "Handle Me," even on the explicit version, which is fucking ridiculous.

I haven't heard "Handle Me" without the backmasking.

I heard "Low" on the radio again...the word "glock" is edited out, which I suppose is also understandable, but they also removed the word "crack" from the "tattoo above her crack" line. And there's another song the radio plays all the time, called "Addicted," with a line that goes something like "all the things you do/when you're going down on me/between the sheets" which is left intact. Apparently that's okay?

Although I suppose in their defense the station isn't the one actually doing the editing; the label makes the clean edits themselves, right?

Krusty the Clown: Now, boys, the network has a problem with some of your lyrics. Do you mind changing them for the show?
Anthony Kiedis: Forget you, clown.
Chad Smith: Yeah, our lyrics are like our children, man. No way.
Krusty the Clown: Well, okay, but here where it says, "What I got you gotta get and put it in ya," how about just, "What I'd like is I'd like to hug and kiss ya."
Flea: Wow. That's much better.
Arik Marshall: Everyone can enjoy that.

In "Shake Ya Tailfeather" (Nelly/Diddy song), they edit out the word "thumpin" but leave the word "ass" in.

I have distinct memories of hearing "You Don't Know How It Feels" by Tom Petty edited so that in the line "let's smoke another joint" the word 'joint' was played backward, which, of course, made the line stand out more. I'm not sure where I heard it, but I'm guessing it was on one particular radio station in Northeast PA that was always monkeying with songs they played.

They did that on MTV, too.

I 'member a version of that Petty song where the line was re-sung & changed to "let's hit another joint."

Come to think of it, that sounds just as much like a drug reference as "roll" does...

The strangest-sounding example of this I can think of is the censored (not the "clean") version of "Get Low" at the point where Lil' Jon says "til' the sweat comes off my balls." Shit sounds messed up.

When I was a kid, I thought I had somehow purchased some edited version of Love & Rockets s/t album b/c of the bleeps in "Jungle Law."

in Big Poppa, "douches" is scrambled but "bushes" isn't

from the video of lollipop i just saw on BET:

call on me so i can make it ***juicy*** for ya
you know i like to touch those lovely lady ***lumps***

whaaaaa on that second one

^Whaaaa indeed. BET and MTV are notoriously random when it comes to bleeping out sexual and drug references in rap songs.

I was gonna start a thread about edited words on explicit versions, but it's already been touched on above with BIG's "pregnant" and Eminem's Columbine stuff. Examples off the top of my head:
-MF Doom- Deep Fried Frenz: "Goin' wild like a (white) bitch". This is funny because rappers slur white people all the time, but Doom is on Rhymesayers, a predominantly white label.
-A Dr. Dre song on 2001 where he's talking about someone he had beef with (Eazy?)and it goes "Talkin like you (random sped-up sample comes in) Anyone know what he says?
-I heard a possibly bootlegged song with a bunch of NorCal rappers that used 2Pac's verse from California Love but edited out "Dre"

Keep 'em comin!

Ludacris - Act a Fool: "My folk ridin' SHOTGUN with a (shotgun)"

My favorite is hearing Van Morrison's Brown Eye Girl being cut so that "making love in the green grass" was left out. I heard the edited version somewhere that wasn't even family-orientated, too.

In The Game's "No More Fun and Games"

I fuck black bitches/ I fuck white bitches/ Nigga, I like bitches/ Even half and half Alicia [Keys] dyke bitches

Ludacris - Act a Fool: "My folk ridin' SHOTGUN with a (shotgun)"

― when I wake up I see my self bearfooted (clotpoll), Saturday, December 13, 2008 3:14 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol another luda one from area codes

"i bang (cock) in bangkok"

I thought it was kind of wierd when Much Music cut out "trees", as in smoke trees, (this was in an dre verse in an eminem video).

"Rollin down the street, smokin SMOKIN, sippin on gin and juice" is how it was on MTV and most radio. Okay, if you know what "smoking indo" means, you've probably already done it and are already corrupted.

on that "Wanna Be A Rock Star" song by Nickleback, they bleep "drug" but leave in "dealer" right after...I mean come on...

There's some old Lil Kim track - maybe the Jump Off - where she boasts she can "make a Sprite can disappear in my mouth", but they bleep out 'Sprite can' - was surprised when I heard the explicit version that the deleted phrase wasn't dirtier.