Cop Killer - #BodyCount

https://youtu.be/yg_S4JJMxPU?si=mpviAV4Om_G7yHwg

Fab live coverage from 1992.

When talking about #controversial #music, there are few more shining examples than #CopKiller. Recorded by #IceT’s rock group Body Count, “Cop Killer” is a heated #song about a victim of #PoliceBrutality who violently takes matters into his own hands. The song faced criticism from #LawEnforcement agencies, the Parents Music Resource Center #PMRC, President #GeorgeHWBush and the public in general. Some people responded through #protests and #boycotts of any company associated with the distribution of the record. This caused sales to skyrocket, but also prompted certain stores to take the album off their shelves. Some countries, such as #NewZealand, attempted to have the song and the #rap group itself completely #banned. Stockholders threatened to pull out from #WarnerBrosRecords and executives received #DeathThreats. While Ice-T stood by his work, stating that it was a #ProtestSong meant to reflect hateful emotions rather than encourage violence, he subsequently decided to recall the album, removing the trouble-making song upon re-release.

https://youtu.be/yg_S4JJMxPU?si=mpviAV4Om_G7yHwg

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(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - #RollingStones

https://youtu.be/bG8L3CnjmBo?si=ThNGLGOD7vBxtHi8

In 1965, during a performance of this world-famous chart-topper on #ABC’s #music variety show, Shindig!, the song’s line “trying to make some girl” was #censored. Not surprisingly, “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” had faced much criticism for its #SexualInnuendo and critical statements about #commercialism. However, when the Rolling Stones performed the song again 40 years later during the February 2006 #SuperBowlXL halftime show, this was the only song that wasn’t censored.

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God Save the Queen - #SexPistols

This #controversial #punk #song was denied airplay by #BBC in 1977 due to its criticism of the #BritishGovernment–despite the fact that it had reached number two in the BBC’s own charts. Later, #police #harassed the band when it performed the song from a boat on the Thames.

https://youtu.be/02D2T3wGCYg?si=pqs89nkVY3OkXCnP

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Take the Power Back - #RATM

After #ChollaHighMagnetSchool teachers used this song in a #MexicanAmerican history class, Superintendent John Huppenthal issued a “notice of noncompliance” to the #Tucson Unified School District. So in January 2015, over 20 years after the song was released, #RageAgainstTheMachine’s #lyrics–along with #KRSOne’s #HipHop teachings– were deemed to be against #Arizona state law, which states that schools cannot “advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals.”

https://youtu.be/rMjjsjNBS_4?si=iDBzk52brzOi-QkN

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