50 Cent is pissed. His new video for the song "I'll Still Kill" has been censored for television. Now, granted, this song contains some censor-worthy lyrics, but the levels of lameness that this censorship entails are unprecedented.
Say goodbye to "I'll Still Kill." Say hello to "I'll Still Will." Oh yes, that's the new name of the song. Nevermind the fact that "kill" isn't a swear word, but "I'll Still Will" doesn't even make any ****ing sense. Is the song about an 80-year old man who gets shot 9 times but still goes ahead with dividing up his assets amongst his grandchildren? I ****ing hate when these **********s edit ***t into some ****ing lame **s *******t that no one can ****ing understand.
50 said of the censors:
I don't think they have a problem with the group the Killers being called the Killers. I don't think anyone's protesting that Guns N' Roses is called Guns N' Roses. I just think that their perception of me is dark, so they're going to ask for those things to be changed, you know what I mean?
Also, and this is the worst part, the entire chorus is nothing but silence. This part I understand, as some of the actual lyrics are unfit for play on TV or radio. Way to pick a radio-friendly single, 50. Here's the actual chorus (sung by Akon):
When I hit the block I still will kill
And I don't want to, n***a but I will if I got to
Kill, if n***az get to f**kin around
If n***az get to f**kin around
Here's the edited version:
When I hit the block, I still will...
And I don't want to...
But I will if I got to...
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Yep. It's a great song, too, making this massacre all the more pathetic. How many times must I bring this up? Rappers used to make edited versions of their songs. They were radio-friendly, and they were totally different than the original version, so listeners who bought the CD were getting two songs for the price of one. You could make a mix tape with the clean version of "Dre Day" and the dirty version of "Dre Day" back-to-back, and you wouldn't even realize it was the same song. Now, we get choruses like, "When I... I don't... Man... I been... You... Fly... Cash... Watch out!!!" So lame. On the other hand, censors have gone so far that it's hard to blame 50 Cent. In the aforementioned "Dre Day," Snoop Dogg rapped about a "dick in ya mouth," but it was edited to say "gat in ya mouth." Nowadays, would "gat" not be edited out of a song? The words that used to be the safe replacements for edited words have now become the edited words. Where will it end, darn it?
Here is the clean version of "I'll Still Will." Take a listen to the chorus. People who talk about jazz music sometimes say that the silence in between notes is just as important as the notes themselves. That clearly doesn't apply to gangsta rap.
