What’s the most number of cuss words you believe has been thrown into one song? 50? 70? 140? I personally thought it stood anywhere between 100 and 150? If you thought so too, then just like me, you would be dramatically underestimating humanity’s ability to … well … to put it bluntly, talk s#!t.
The Guinness World Record stands at 295 cuss words in one song, held by the one and only, here for a limited time only, Lil’ Jon. I honestly don’t know whether to be impressed or appalled, but regardless I stand confused. Back in the day when I was going through the underground hip-hop rules, sagging, bandanna wearing, too cool for school, phase, I don’t think I said that many in a whole day.
It really is no wonder that the generation before us at bare minimum shy away from music these days. Some of the most famous names in the game, Lil’ Wayne, Jay-Z (who just releases another album “4:44” that went platinum in under a week), Eminem, have all built their empires by embracing the aggressive nature of profanity and fusing it into their music. Now I’m not going to sit here and tell you that I do not like music with swear words in them, just this morning I was listening to Drake who even though he does have a few songs here and there that are ‘curse free’, but the ones I was grooving to this morning had more than a few slurs in there.
My question is this, what happened in the early 80’s that made us demand profanity from our entertainers? The average of cuss words in a song was on a steady increase from the early 80’s to the early 2000’s. Let’s face it, it is our fault. The consumers. Music is a business. Musicians are business men. They see a market, they make products to satisfy said market. And we richly embrace them for it.
If I allow myself to digress a little, think of a stand up comedian who is famous and does not curse… How long did that take u? Did you even find one? The first few that came to my mind were: Kevin Hart-curses; Eddie Murphy-curses; the late Richard Pryor-curses; Dave Chapelle-curses; Kat Williams-curses;… I honestly couldn’t think of any. And this is the exact same trend that the music industry has been going through.
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Smith’s total solo album sales stand at 9.4 million in the U.S., according to NielsenSoundScan. His biggest selling album is 1998’s “Big Willie Style,” having sold just over 10 million copies worldwide.
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I really don’t think there is a need to say anything else.
And don’t be fooled into thinking that this a male only sport, not at all. Some females can throw down with the best of the fellas. The likes of Lil’ Kim, Trina, and Riskay would never shy away from profanity. Similarly it is not only Hip-Hop artists that swear in their music. Open your google page, type in a genre in your google search followed by the word profanity, you will see exactly what I mean.
Now although the statistics have slightly improved since the early 2000’s there is still and absurd amount of profanity in today’s music when you think about it. Some will argue that they need to use these words to convey the point that they want to put across, and to some extent I get that. But if the song hasn’t started, and your intro is full of cuss words that are not making any real point, what’s the reasoning?
Don’t get me wrong, I am not condemning these artists. If I was told that I would have the financial stability of the likes of Dr. Dre, Birdman, Drake, ………… well…. … .. . I just can’t help but wonder is it necessary? Almost as much as when a radio station tries to play the uncensored version of new hit Rap song. Now that’s some funny stuff.