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Old 11-03-2017, 07:50 PM #26
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You cant really control what fans sing or chant though.
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Blame NWA
1988
they started it all.

"feck the police" track, sold very well
even with white folk
Even selling today, no less


They were educated
not from slums
ref : Paxman Live interview
Newsnight 1988

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Can someone please tell the "black academics" that I don't mind that the song about Moses and the Jews in Egypt (Let My People Go) was adopted as a negro spiritual. We don't mind sharing.
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Well, if they were singing songs with strong connotations to slavery then I'm sure we would...
Most songs have a connection to something, most have meaning and history, just like most words.

As long as that song isn't actually committing slavery, then what's the problem?
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