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Old_Zircon - 2013-05-13

No Zappa?


joelkazoo - 2013-05-13

I believe he was fighting his cancer at the time, and was rushing to get as much out as he could before he croaked, don't quote me.

Gotta love T's "Some women LIKE to do it with a flashlight!" defense...waitaminnit, is that how Fleshlights were invented?


Dinkin Flicka - 2013-05-14

He spoke out, and there's a great Frontline with him, though his mine gripe was how this whole effort on the gov't and Tipper's part was a media smoke screen for taxing blank tapes (or something like that?); plus, you know, EVERYTHING ELSE GOING ON IN THE WORLD AT THE TIME.

PS. I hope Tipper Gore lives a suicidally disenchanted life.


Syd Midnight - 2013-05-15

I hope someone can find a Youtube of Jello's spoken word piece giving his version of this interview. His favorite moment is pulling out the newspaper and reading Tipper back her own words.


Cena_mark - 2013-05-13

I miss the days when hip hop scared whitey. Even when it was positive it scared whitey. Fight the Power!


Old_Zircon - 2013-05-13

I wonder if Tipper ever got over hearing that Prince song.


Old_Zircon - 2013-05-13

"Dray"


the fact that people don't get upset like this about music anymore is the most damning evidence of its cultural irrelevance today.


chumbucket - 2013-05-13

I love that this is largely a forgotten issue and the fact that there is really no way to "control" music in this manner anymore anyway. Too many of these people are more concerned with how pants get worn.


Dinkin Flicka - 2013-05-14

It was all a smoke screen -- there are a hundred analogous stories & issues being reported - and shoved down people's throats so they think it's a big deal - at this very second.


snothouse - 2013-05-13

Nobody rushes to defend "One In A Million"!


candyheadrobot - 2013-05-13

Speaking of censorship:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/21/juan-williams-fired-n pr_n_770901.html

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/10/21/juan-williams-npr-fi red-truth-muslim-garb-airplane-oreilly-ellen-weiss-bush/


Cena_mark - 2013-05-13

Ha ha! What tool hoisted by his own petard.


Nikon - 2013-05-13

Did Iced Tea and Ice Cube ever get together? They could become a sweet and refreshing beverage.


Dinkin Flicka - 2013-05-14

Here you are, sir. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d6inNardy0

Ice Cube's verse is the worst; Tupac's is the best. I, for one, am unsurprised by this.


EvilHomer - 2013-05-13

I hate Tipper Gore so much. Every time I think about Bush 2000, I try and remember the silver lining: we didn't have to deal with Tipper and Lieberman.

Also, it's nice to see a young Jello, from back before he left music and went into politics. I remember reading a series of articles he wrote during the early 2000s, where he bitched about how awful the music industry had become "since his day", rehashing the same moralistic arguments Juan and the Rabbi use here. Just replace "scary black people" with "reactionary Jewish businessmen" and post-90s Biafra would be right at home.

In retrospect, he was always a bit of a sanctimonious, self-serving prick, but at least when he was in the punk rock business, it was in his own self-interest to stick up for the good guys.


Syd Midnight - 2013-05-15

Given that there were more than a few thousand rap and/or metal fans in Florida in 2000, I've always thought that Tipper was one of several things that cost Al Gore the election. He should have divorced her ass a few years earlier.


Seven Arts/H8 Red - 2013-05-13

At least with Ice-T, he gave the "people on the street are like this, you can't censor it" argument. '90s tabloid talk shows owed their existence to a similar argument, although the "THESE ARE THE DREGS OF YOUR COUNTRY, AMERICA! YOU SUCK" mock indignation was tacked on, to justify the daytime syndication.


casualcollapse - 2020-12-17

oh shit


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