Rude words in modern music.

So as every white boy in the East End is aware, the new Roll Deep video filmed at the Old Blue last has been on YouTube for the last week or so. I like it - it is a good pop song. Even if there is a bit of some string arrangement from a Jethro Tull song and there are critter noises through it like Gremlins let loose in a department store. But I was a bit concerned when I listened to the "uncensored version" today from YouTube featuring London's number 1 look-a-like for Vanessa off Big Brother and a lot of bum.



Please tell me that this uncensored version is just a spoof? "Non-stop gash, penetrate that!" Ergh with what? A broom handle? How gross can you get? It is a good refrain but I feel like I shouldn't like it and be offended in a lesbo wimmins rights kind of way. Another song that made me feel bad was when I bought the 12" for Where's Da Hood At by DMX. Read this:

Man, cats don't know what it's gonna be
messin with a dog like me, D-to-the-M-to-the-X
Last I heard, y'all cowards was havin sex, with the same sex
I show no love to no homo thug
Empty out, reloaded and throw more slugs
How you gonna explain born in a man?
Even if we squashed the beef, I ain't touchin ya hand
I don't mess with chumps, for those to been to jail
That's the cat with the Kool-Aid on his lips and pumps
I can't deal with brother that think they broads
Only know how to be one way, that's the dog
I know how to get down, know how to bite, bite
Bark very little, but I know how to fight, fight
I know how to chase a cat up in the tree
man, i'll give you cowards the business for messin wot me
ay you crazy!

I actually took that record back to the Virgin Megastore on account of finding the lyrics offensive. I few weeks later I bought it again. Cause Paul and I discovered what is known as HomoHop. Check out this 'gueer', Johnny Dangerous from Chicago. Also self proclaimed faggot Dead Lee. And of course his official myspace page. So where was I - DMX and the 12". The moment that I changed my mind was when I saw the original video that came out. It was all these beefed up dudes in the prison yard totally oiled up in prison clothes and was one of the most homo erotic visions since I saw the Ropert Mapplethorpe exhibition in Sydney 13 years ago. So I figured for all I knew DMX was gay.

All this talk of being mean to each other and brapppppping all over the place with your little fake cowboy gun in the air makes me think of this nice taxi driver I had a little while ago. EDMX [not to be confused with the gay or not rapper above] and I were coming back from Stansted and our driver was a tiny little Jamaican grandfather. He was listening to beautiful old reggae love songs and singing along. Ed was asking him what he thought of this and that artist when the little man said "I don't like all that ragga with all that killing and guns and tings. All these stupid little boys talking about killing and treating women bad." Ed said that not all new stuff was like that, and the driver was saying "Lift your leg up?! This means get your gun!! All music for silly boys about killing and making trouble with dutty words." I was day dreaming out the window. The driver said "We are boring her talking about all this music."

Anyway, while I was looking unsucessfully for the original DMX video, I found this instead, full of dutty words and dutty women and great music. Don't bother looking at it, just listen to it.



xx Lektrogirl