Seeded from nytimes.com by Alex on 9/25/07
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two rappers, sitting side-by-side in an ornate House hearing room, went in different directions Monday on the need for hip hop artists to expunge their work of sexist and violent language.
One, Master P, apologized to women for past songs that demeaned them, while another was defiant.
Former gangsta rapper Master P, whose real name is Percy Miller, told a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing that he is now committed to producing clean lyrics. The angry music of his past, he said, came from seeing relatives and friends shot and killed…
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Congress needs to stop wasting its time. If this is truly an important problem to address, how can anyone possibly believe that any level of censorship is going keep this language and these themes out of hip-hop? This is the information age. If our freedom of speech was to be ignored and prohibition of explicit content was actually implemented, the internet would be one big rap music speakeasy- as if it already wasn’t.