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LOST TREASURES: Alternate Rap Lyrics
By Jim Shearer on 04/11/2008
Filed under: LOST TREASURESIn this edition of Lost Treasures we wipe the cobwebs off an art-form that is rarely used in music these days--alternate lyrics in hip-hop. Today when an explicit-filled rap song is played on the television or radio (or even ring tone), the clean-version will usually sound something like this, "Yo, I was messin' wit that mutha [silence] [silence], she was suckin' my [silence] cause I'm mutha [silence] rich." Some songs have so many edits in them, it almost sounds like the emcee has a chronic case of the hiccups. If the original is minced to pieces, why even release... MORE »
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