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Have any MS radio stations banned Chris Brown's music?

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the golden boy

Some radio stations across the country have taken pop star Chris Brown off their airwaves in response to his arrest in assaulting his pop-star girlfriend Rihanna a week ago. Have any in Mississippi taken him off the air on their stations?
 
I haven't noticed any of his tracks on the rhythmics in Meridian. However I also haven't noticed a spike in play for Rihanna either.
 
I was kinda under the impression that beatin' on wimmin was considered a good thing in hip-hop/rap culture. Not that I go out of my way to listen to that genre of music, but what I've heard, women aren't exactly routinely placed on pedestals and worshipped. :(
 
Around 1970, the FCC censored drug lyrics in songs...in the 50s, when Big Bad John came out they had to edit
"one helll of a man" out for radio and change it to "big big man"...now, it's ok to sing/say/shout f***
b**** or just about anything else. Man, we have progressed! Or have we?
 
OldGM said:
Around 1970, the FCC censored drug lyrics in songs...in the 50s, when Big Bad John came out they had to edit
"one helll of a man" out for radio and change it to "big big man"...now, it's ok to sing/say/shout f***
b**** or just about anything else. Man, we have progressed! Or have we?
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I've listened to a lot of terrestrial radio have never heard 'the F word' purposely let out over the airwaves.

Personally, I don't think any language should be censored from the radio and that it should be up each of us to make decisions as to what we listen to. I don't think the FCC has/should have authority to regulate speech anywhere, but that's neither here nor there.

As to the content of the music that's popular today with a lot of youth… Well, it certainly is troubling when we actually get down to some of the lyrics or gangsta rap.
 
Back in the 60s parents got mad when the Beatles sang about how cool drugs were, or when John Lennon said the Beatles were more popular than Jesus, and then in the 50s they'd only show Elvis from the waist up on the Ed Sullivan TV show, Elvis was just too much for the adults, who were thinkin' they were protecting their kids.

Freakin' out the adults, a basic part of music for young people.
 
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