Rapper Snoop Dogg has been refused a Visa to come and perform in the UK. And the concert's been cancelled as a result! In fact he's been refused because of a previous violent incident at Heathrow. What he should have been prevented from performing for is having lyrics clearly intended to incite hatred and violence against women. For instance:
"Can you control your hoe? (You got a bitch that wont do what you say)
You can’t control your hoe? (She hardheaded, she just won’t obey)
Can you control your hoe? (You’ve got to know what to do, and what to say)
You’ve got to put that bitch in her place, even if it’s slapping her in her face.
Ya got to control your hoe. Can you control your hoe? "
Monday, March 26, 2007
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Oh and an update... Apparently concicted-criminal-turned-children's entertainer Snoop Dogg is upset at being barred from the UK because - according to his spokesman P Diddy "We wanted to send a positive message to the kids". Alarms bells are ringing for me that we should be letting kids see offensive acts like that. Anyway I had a little lyric search for this "positive message", you know the one for the children, perhaps this is it:
The stock market has always been 100% when it comes to pussy
The worlds oldest profession
Yah it's still alive
No matter what the consequences
A trick 'gun still buy it
No matter how sick they make it
A hard stick gunna still wanna play it
Marching up, every day and every night
To the drummers beat
Titled the oldest profession, and it never fell back
Not even in the recession
No Christmas toys for the kids
Yah daddy fucked it up
He said he was drunk playing poker with the boys
Yah niggas pay for pussy
Remember that Easter Sunday
It was so damn sunny
We didn't get no Easter clothes, candy, or Easter bunny
Yah, daddy fucked it up
Rollin' dice with the boys
Yah niggas pay for pussy
Whether it's at the tity bar
Or outta the car
Yah niggas pay for pussy
OHH yah, Some niggas pay for pussy, oh yah
Some niggas pay for pussy, oh yah
Some niggas pay for pussy, oh yah
Dem niggas pay for pussy, oh yah
Niggas pay for pussy, oh yah
The only time I've had trouble "controlling my hoe", it was a gardening related problem. The only time I've "paid for pussy" is when it needed to go the vets.
Snoop Dogg is a big kid who thinks rude words are big and clever.
I think the government showed untypical good sense in refusing him a visa, whichever of many reasons they chose to care about.
I'll sing THAT next time we do karaoke!
"What he should have been prevented from performing for is having lyrics clearly intended to incite hatred and violence against women."
Where do you draw the line between free speech and incitement? I think his concerts should be restricted to adults only, but I wouldn't want him or his records censored. His lyrics are sexist and demeaning to women, but I don't think they're inciting anything so much as just putting on a gangsta persona in order to sell records. Does anyone think that he really goes around hitting women and shooting people or that he's encouraging listeners to do that? Also, a lot of hip-hop culture is describing inner-city life rather than necessarily defending all aspects of it - violence and sexism are unfortunately a part of that life in some cases, and the hip-hop artists need to be able to express that.
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