Use swear words in songs seems to be the new cool among musicians; now musicians want to whatever the case is, include cursed words in their songs.
I can make mention of Shatta Wale’s Talk-talk, WMT, Sarkodie’s Rich Nigga Shit, you name it, and strangely most of these songs with the cursed words happen to be the most requested songs on radio and so presenters have no option than to play this songs to their listeners by means of editing and taking out those vulgar words.
Well, late afternoon show host on Class FM, Prince Benjamin has this to say about swear words in songs,
He posted on Facebook,
I don’t like vulgar language esp. in good music; I think it kinda ruins the song but these days some (if not most) of the best have it – it’s useless to argue good music shouldn’t have f*, s*, n* etc but these words are argued to be artistic expressions.
Fine, let’s allow our fav. artists to swear and say anything they like but why are there hardly any radio versions of dirty songs from Ghana? Salutes to Donzy Chaka; he has a radio version for his new hit #Club but I am yet to see artists like Sarkodie and ElrepGh with readily available radio edits/versions of their songs.
Some of these songs are sonic beauties but you can’t share them on radio because of the language. If you try to clean them yourself, it sounds weird because it wasn’t done in the studio plus it’s so much work.
I had a depressing and hard time cleaning Sarkodie’s “Rich N* S*” yesterday, mehn. Wasn’t funny mpo. Lol. Bless whoever thought to shorten the name to RNS because I was wondering how to announce it on air without offending myself and listeners.
Why all the hustle? #RNS is a great piece!
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