Posted On: April 23th 2007
Posted By: Bryan Kremkau
Source: Billboard
Billboard: In the wake of radio host Don Imus' firing over racially insensitive comments about the Rutgers women's basketball team, many activists in the black community have turned their attention to rap's misogynistic lyrics and begun to question what steps the music industry should take to police itself.
Now, Russell Simmons and Dr. Benjamin Chavis, on behalf of the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, have issued a recommendation that the recording and broadcast industries voluntarily censor the "misogynistic" words "bitch and "ho" and the "racially offensive" word "n*gger" from future recordings.
Posted on: April 23th 2007. Posted by: READmagazine
Censorship is stupid. I could understand encouraging radio stations to not play songs with inappropriate lyrics, but to tell artists to censor themselves is redonk.
