> Well, just think of a white band singing about 'niggas' 'bitches' committing
> acts of random violence, etc. It would be scandalous.
But white men have sung about murdering their wives for decades, if not centuries and nobody's batted an eyelid. One example of many: I worked in record shops in the late 80s and early 90s, the PMRC years when discs were first regularly labelled for "explicit content". During this time a new Johnny Cash album was released. Its opening track went like this:
"I went up to Memphis And I met Delia there Found her in her parlor And I tied to her chair Delia's gone One more round Delia's gone
First time I shot her I shot her in the side Hard to watch her suffer But with the second shot she died Delia's gone One more round Delia's gone"
This album was released on a major label and sold fairly well - it wasn't so obscure as to just slip under the radar of the (would-be) censors. But it wasn't given a warning label. Do you really think a black group would have got away with this?