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People complain that hip-hop stars use obscene lyrics and lewd music videos to demean women.
It was in Mr. Mazappa's company, as he regaled us with confusing and often obscene lyrics from songs he knew, that we three came to accept one another.
"On the one hand there are aggressive, sexually obscene lyrics that deform the innate sensuality of the Cuban woman, projecting them as grotesque sexual objects.
The first to use professional strippers in a video may have been the Miami-based 2 Live Crew, which cast them in the 1989 hit "Me So Horny," the subject of a controversy over obscene lyrics at the time.
Zappa's libertarian streak manifests itself most famously when he took on Tipper Gore and the Parents Music Resource Center, accusing their attempts to label obscene lyrics as the first step toward an Orwellian theocracy.
We're informed that a soused Rex Harrison "appalled" a roomful of Hollywood establishment types at a restaurant by "singing obscene lyrics about his penis to the tune of 'I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face' " while his wife, Rachel Roberts, "who was not wearing underwear, did handstands".
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He said he made his comments to inspire people to take back their neighborhoods and express outrage about everything from obscene rap lyrics to negative media images of blacks years after "The Cosby Show" broke new ground.
Far from rejoicing as they come home from school and repeat jokes about blow jobs that they've heard in the playground, far from beaming with pride as they rap along to obscene Eminem lyrics or shoot people on the PlayStation, the process has made me want to protect them from the ugly realities of the world for as long as I can.
An organization led by the rap impresario Russell Simmons called yesterday for a boycott of the Pepsi-Cola Company because, the organization contends, the company has displayed hypocrisy in running a commercial featuring the singer Ozzy Osbourne after ending an endorsement deal with the rapper Ludacris because of complaints about obscene song lyrics.
L. Brent Bozell III, who previously criticized The Marshall Mathers LP for its lyrics, which he perceived to be misogynistic, noted The Eminem Show for its extensive use of obscene language, giving Eminem the nickname "Eminef" for the bowdlerization of motherfucker, an obscenity prevalent in the album.
Obscene language and obscene sums of money.
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