Snoop on Live 8

Draupnir · 02-07-2005 5:35pm #1

Anybody watching this? Now I curse like a docker most of the time, but this is unreal. 6:30 in the day at a charity event live on TV across the world and hes coming out with pretty much everything you can think of.

Im not prudish at all, but I have to say, this seems wrong to me.

Sarky · 02-07-2005 5:36pm

You can get away with anything if you do it for charity.

Karl Hungus · 02-07-2005 5:37pm

I'd have to disagree... All kids are aware of any of the crude language he uses. Face facts, when you're in primary school you learn all the curse words under the sun. So some "Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children" aproach here is nothing but blinkered, and niave.

danniemcq · 02-07-2005 5:44pm

well he "warned" before the gig not to swear

Draupnir · 02-07-2005 5:45pm

I dont think thats really the point, its not right to expose people to wat is explicit and offensive language without some warning in place. Not all kids learn those words and I certainly wouldnt want my children exposed to that. Not on a day when Im encouraging them to help their fella man and trying to do something good.

There is a time and a place for everything, and this isnt the place for drop that sh*t and whats my name muthaf*cka

ApeXaviour · 02-07-2005 5:46pm

Calm down, greenday were doing it earlier..

Swearing is becoming less of a social faux pas now w.r.t. children. Go to some under 12's accompanied by parents movies and you'll hear a lot of swearing.

Sarky · 02-07-2005 5:48pm

Draupnir wrote:

Not all kids learn those words and I certainly wouldnt want my children exposed to that.

If you have kids, I can guarentee they already know all the "bad" words you do, and plenty more besides.

anthonymcg · 02-07-2005 5:54pm

I thought the whole ego thing was a bit OTT though. It's a charity gig, not a snopp concert.

RuggieBear · 02-07-2005 5:58pm

i agree he performance seemed quite "self centred" and it was good of his lackeys to try and get the crowd to clap and chant to "snoop dog".

What an utter penis!

Karl Hungus · 02-07-2005 6:07pm

Draupnir wrote:

I certainly wouldnt want my children exposed to that.

How much is that sensory deprevation tank costing you?

Draupnir · 02-07-2005 6:16pm

I dont actually have any children, I was speaking of how I would feel if I did. It wasnt so much the fact that he cursed that bothered me. What made it stand out to me was how unnecessary and offensive it sounded.

Geldof saying "Give us your f*cking money" or Greenday saying "Lets f*cking make poverty history" isnt offensive to me and it wouldnt bother me letting children hear that.

However, snoop dog talking about "bitches" "muthaf*ckas" and that kinda crap is pointless and offensive. A pathetic load of crap dressed up as music.

danniemcq · 02-07-2005 6:16pm

haha madonna just swore a whole load!

Sarky · 02-07-2005 6:17pm

Rascist!

Pigman II · 02-07-2005 6:18pm

Totally agree! He should have sanitised everything told everyone to wave their hands in the muthersmuckin air like they just don't care. :rolleyes:

That's his act. Let him do it. Yer man off Razorlight was swearing just as much during his set but I'm sure we won't hear anything about that. Even Madonnas just used the f-word now.

Just be thankful Snoop didn't perform 'Ain't No Fun'.

Squirrel · 02-07-2005 6:20pm

Johnathan Ross talking about Snoops Motherlovin performance, quality

BuffyBot · 02-07-2005 7:25pm

Not all kids learn those words and I certainly wouldnt want my children exposed to that

Rightttttttttttttt.....

aidan_dunne · 02-07-2005 7:28pm

Draupnir wrote:

Geldof saying "Give us your f*cking money"..........

He never actually said that, in fact. Everybody thinks he did and it's a myth that's gone around and become world famous as a result over the years but Geldof never actually said "Give me the f**king money" or "Give us your f**king money now" or anything like it during Live Aid. What he actually said was "Give me/us the money" while pounding his fist on the table and a couple of minutes later he was just talking and let slip the word f**k in a totally different sentence altogether (which was a very big deal on live television back 20 years ago!). Of course, as I said, over the years everybody has just taken that and turned it into the legendary "Give me the f**king money" line that had blossomed into folklore nowadays.

Getting back to the language used during today's gigs, it doesn't really bother me and, as others have already said, I don't think it would bother many other people too much to have their children hearing that kind of thing. I'm sure they probably hear much worse in the school playground every day of the week anyway. Didn't mind the odd "f**k" from the likes of Green Day and all that but Snoop Dogg is a self-serving muppet anyway, so I wasn't expecting anything else from him but what he came out with. Would have been nice if he had managed to tone it down a little given the occasion, I'll agree, but, hey, that's the modern world so there's not much you can do about it, I guess. You just have to go with it.

OFDM · 02-07-2005 7:28pm

We can't type "fúck" on boards without it being censored so why should a crap rapper get to say it on world wide television.

Careful now. Down with this sort of thing.

Draupnir · 02-07-2005 8:33pm

aidan_dunne wrote:

He never actually said that, in fact. Everybody thinks he did and it's a myth that's gone around and become world famous as a result over the years but Geldof never actually said "Give me the f**king money" or "Give us your f**king money now" or anything like it during Live Aid. What he actually said was "Give me/us the money" while pounding his fist on the table and a couple of minutes later he was just talking and let slip the word f**k in a totally different sentence altogether (which was a very big deal on live television back 20 years ago!). Of course, as I said, over the years everybody has just taken that and turned it into the legendary "Give me the f**king money" line that had blossomed into folklore nowadays.

Getting back to the language used during today's gigs, it doesn't really bother me and, as others have already said, I don't think it would bother many other people too much to have their children hearing that kind of thing. I'm sure they probably hear much worse in the school playground every day of the week anyway. Didn't mind the odd "f**k" from the likes of Green Day and all that but Snoop Dogg is a self-serving muppet anyway, so I wasn't expecting anything else from him but what he came out with. Would have been nice if he had managed to tone it down a little given the occasion, I'll agree, but, hey, that's the modern world so there's not much you can do about it, I guess. You just have to go with it.

You watched that documentary on BBC 2 last week didnt ya! I saw that thing about give us your f*ckin money myself on it.

aidan_dunne · 02-07-2005 8:53pm

Draupnir wrote:

You watched that documentary on BBC 2 last week didnt ya! I saw that thing about give us your f*ckin money myself on it.

No, I saw it mentioned on a different programme years ago. Think it was actually 10 years ago, come of think of it, when it was the 10th anniversay of Live Aid. There were a few programmes on the telly around that time too, going over Live Aid and remembering it and stuff, and it was during one of them that it was mentioned. Since then, anytime anyone's mentioned the "Give us your f**king money" quote from Geldof to me, I always point out to them the fact that it's just an urban myth that's propogated itself over the years that he actually said that!

Tanabe · 03-07-2005 4:07pm

IMHO, Snoop's performance was nothing short of TOP CLASS yesterday. If anybody has a problem with what they see/hear you have a choice - just press that button on ur remote & change the channel! But plz don't go forcing ur opinion onto the rest of the world. We all have the freedom of choice, it's up to the individual what they are comfortable/uncomfortable with.

Bear in mind, Snoop WAS perfoming for charity. That was his act you saw him perform, why should he have to change it? As I said if u don't like it u don't have to watch it!

"Wave ur hands in tha motherf***in air"

BrianD3 · 03-07-2005 4:23pm

aidan_dunne wrote:

No, I saw it mentioned on a different programme years ago. Think it was actually 10 years ago, come of think of it, when it was the 10th anniversay of Live Aid. There were a few programmes on the telly around that time too, going over Live Aid and remembering it and stuff, and it was during one of them that it was mentioned. Since then, anytime anyone's mentioned the "Give us your f**king money" quote from Geldof to me, I always point out to them the fact that it's just an urban myth that's propogated itself over the years that he actually said that!

Yep, I'm the same, people think I'm a total anorak when I point out to them what Geldof actually said. Basically Geldof banged his fist on the table and said "there are people dying NOW so gimme the money". Then he tried to give out the phone numbers for viewers to make donations. But the presenter interrupted him and said you'll have to give out the address first to which Geldof replied "fu*k the address"

This urban legend is a bit like the one about Eamon Dunphy's comments after Ireland's performance vs Egypt in Italia 90. Everyone thinks that Dunphy said he was ashamed to be Irish, when what he really said was that he was ashamed of the Irish team. Bit of a difference.