We did not know this, because we don't listen to FM radio all that much (reasons: commercials, static, Jack FM, and there's something called Pandora), but apparently radio stations like D.C.'s Hot 99.5 have been censoring the phrase "no homo" in rap lyrics. Because it's offensive to gays or something. (One web commenter says "no homo" is "pretty wrong, kinda like saying i could go for a watermelon, ‘no negro.’" We LOL'd.) But do you know who's being hurt by radio stations censoring the term? Rappers!
The wise words (!) of another net poster: "If they censor it, and someone hasn’t heard it uncensored, doesn’t that completely ruin the meaning?” Or, as Amanda Hess explains: "In other words, when radio stations censor 'no homo' following a rapper’s intentionally homoerotic verse, won’t that make rappers sound kind of, well, gay?"
Well, let's take Lil' Wayne's "Weezy Ambitions" for a spin:
money money money get a dollar & a dick
weezy baby that crack mothafucka get a fix
got money out the assno homobut im rich
bout to…(gangsta grillz you bastards)
Kinda gay.
How about Kayne rapping on Jay-Z and Rihanna's "Run This Town":
It's crazy how you can go from being Joe Blow
To everybody on your dick,no homo
Leave it to Mr. West to take things too far. Homo.
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Waitasec — "mothafucka" gets through on FM radio now? (I don't listen to it much, either.)
As for the 'phobic lyrics of that thug of which you write (and of whom I have heard only because he's headed to jail right now, after copping to a 2nd-degree criminal weapon-possession charge), they should _not_ be bleeped on the radio or anywhere else, for the simple reason that all purveyors of hate music should be exposed as the rotten little bigots they are.
And, in the wake of Buju Banton, I don't think LGBTs everywhere are going to have a collective stroke over the phrase "no homo." Rather, I think most of us would welcome the exposure — of Li'l Dick– er, Wayne.
It would be funnier if they just censored the 'no'.
"…money money money get a dollar & a dick
weezy baby that crack mothafucka get a fix
got money out the ass homo but im rich
bout to…(gangsta grillz you bastards)"
"…It's crazy how you can go from being Joe Blow
To everybody on your dick, homo."
See what I mean.
Lil Wayne and Kanye are the two most overrated rappers in the game, and while they each have many chatchy songs and several good beats I don't think either can really rap worth a damn. Wayve is basically auto-tuned talking and Kanye has no flow and moronic lyrics