CONSCIOUSLY CENSORING
Lately I’ve been constantly monitoring the cursing in my life. For some reason I’ve been feeling like its time to lay off on the cursing and I’ve been actively trying to handle it. I don’t know why I chose to pursue this, is it faith reasons? Is It simple maturity? Could be those things and some other things all I know is all the cursing isn’t necessary.
I remember starting cursing consistently in the 4th grade, I would curse so much in school it was ridiculous and that trended upwards as I got older. Now I think I should know how to communicate better without foul things leaving my mouth every two seconds.
But you know cursing in my life and cursing in the arts are two separate things to me. I hate hearing censored versions of music, especially rap. Clean versions of rap songs sound so stupid. Think I’m Lying? Go Listen to the clean version of “WAP” and see how dumb it sounds.
I just feel like clean versions of music messes with the artist’s intention and expression. An artist has to be allowed to express themselves fully so you can really feel and connect with their music. Matter fact clean versions are such a hinderance that for the classic Dr. Dre song, Xxplosive, its a whole verse that doesn’t even get played on the radio! If you remember it skipped straight to Nate Dogg’s verse, his verse was the best part of the song fasure but you needed that first verse from Kurupt to set Nate up for the kill.
Even in my life, I’m hard on censoring myself in real life but in my music I still let free with the curse words. I probably should ease up there too because of my Christian faith but, man its just a couple bars in my raps really need a f*** or a s*** there to get my point across.
All in all this is NOT an overnight journey and the day may never come when I completely don’t curse. But to be at peace with myself, its going to be something I continuously work on. #love
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