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Ok well I was researching Shinedown's song 45. MTV didn't put their video on air. This message is from the singer of Shinedown.
“Yeah, they sent a treatment over, and this was how it went: "And I'm [long pause], swimming through the [long pause]," and I said, "No. That's retarded." I just said, "You don't want to play it because of the words; don't play it, I don't care." At that time, I had a hard time with the company, meaning the network, about that, because I said, "If you can show," –- and this has nothing to do with my feelings toward rap music, hip-hop, R&B, things like that, but it seems like those individuals and those artists could get away with whatever they wanted to, but I'm sitting here talking about a subject matter that I felt needed to be heard, and they were like, "It’s too literal, you're being too blunt about it." And I said, "Jay-Z has '99 Problems' and you don't have a problem showing him getting shot on your network; I don't see why you have a problem with me saying I'm staring down the barrel of a .45, even though the fact is, I'm not even talking about an actual gun.”
Now I read this and I have to agree with Brent. MTV is being a little bias if you ask me. Now personally I dislike Rap, but Hip-Hop or R&B are ok. It does get me upset that some artist (and I mean rappers) are getting away with certain things. I remember watching a Lil Wayne video (i RREEAALLYY hate the guy) and it shows a girl on top of him with only her underwear. Well the next day I saw the same video but this time, the girl that was on top of him had a blur on her **** (MTV blurred it out).
I started to ask some friends of minds if they prefer rap or rock. Of all of them, I got like 5 people who prefer rap. Now this is a dumb question but which would you prefer?
Me, of course it's gonna be Rock. Rap just doesn't suit too well.
“Yeah, they sent a treatment over, and this was how it went: "And I'm [long pause], swimming through the [long pause]," and I said, "No. That's retarded." I just said, "You don't want to play it because of the words; don't play it, I don't care." At that time, I had a hard time with the company, meaning the network, about that, because I said, "If you can show," –- and this has nothing to do with my feelings toward rap music, hip-hop, R&B, things like that, but it seems like those individuals and those artists could get away with whatever they wanted to, but I'm sitting here talking about a subject matter that I felt needed to be heard, and they were like, "It’s too literal, you're being too blunt about it." And I said, "Jay-Z has '99 Problems' and you don't have a problem showing him getting shot on your network; I don't see why you have a problem with me saying I'm staring down the barrel of a .45, even though the fact is, I'm not even talking about an actual gun.”
Now I read this and I have to agree with Brent. MTV is being a little bias if you ask me. Now personally I dislike Rap, but Hip-Hop or R&B are ok. It does get me upset that some artist (and I mean rappers) are getting away with certain things. I remember watching a Lil Wayne video (i RREEAALLYY hate the guy) and it shows a girl on top of him with only her underwear. Well the next day I saw the same video but this time, the girl that was on top of him had a blur on her **** (MTV blurred it out).
I started to ask some friends of minds if they prefer rap or rock. Of all of them, I got like 5 people who prefer rap. Now this is a dumb question but which would you prefer?
Me, of course it's gonna be Rock. Rap just doesn't suit too well.
