As a part of going through CDs, I've been stuck listening to Lil Jon & The Eastside Boyz. I've played one, maybe two, of their songs - the ones that made it mainstream and were almost bearable for the ears. I started with the newer of the two albums that I have, Crunk Juice, which was probably bought on a gamble. It was jam-packed with cusses to a beat. After listening to a couple of 50 Cent albums, which were fully-loaded with cusses and gunshots, this was a bit more bearable. You see, after the initial blushing of my cheeks (I've been listening to a lot of these CDs at work, on my headphones, so nobody else hears.), I grew numb to it all. But as you can tell from the title of this post, something had to give.
Today at work, I popped in an older album, Kings of Crunk by Lil Jon & The Eastside Boyz and all their crew. I'm surprised the Parental Advisory label isn't larger! I blushed even more and actually had to take a break from my desk to calm down. There are a couple of songs on this album that are sexually explicit to the extreme. I almost vomited from some of the descriptions and I was infuriated that one of the female singers was actually promoting unprotected sex! Despite the policies surrounding the Parental Advisory labels, younger teens are going to listen to this stuff, especially if they're buying the album for the song "Get Low," which they probably heard a very edited version of on a Top 40 radio station. The album also promotes smoking weed, but what gangsta rappa doesn't anymore?
As a DJ, I give my crowd what they want. Unfortunately, if it's an unedited version of "Get Low" (for an adult crowd only), I'll play it and try to forget what "skeet" means.
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