RIAA members market pornography

OPINION
Jon Newton - p2pnet.net

As a guy in the record industry and as a parent, I am shocked that these services are being used to lure children to stuff that is really ugly.
- Andrew Lack, chief executive of Sony Music Entertainment, quoted on porn and p2p in a New York Times story here.

Little young thing go around my d**k with your tongue ring / Deep throat my nine inch
- Sony Music CD
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They're calling it Big Music, now, in exactly the same way the cigarette companies became Big Tobacco when they started getting into Big Trouble with their lies and deceit.

The RIAA, Big Music's mouthpiece, has pulled out all the stops looking for ways to attack file sharing and file sharers - excepting what's available from members, of course - and pornography, particularly where it involves children, is presently where the RIAA and its president, Cary Sherman, are roosting.

Big Mistake.

But as we pointed out in RIAA sinks to the depths, when it comes to 'explicit' lyrics - ie, pornographic and/or violent - the association's members are way out in front of a very sick pack.

Their parental warning labels aren't worth the paper they're printed on and worse, they're not even compulsory. Individual record companies decide for themselves whether or not to put them on releases.

In particular, as the Holmes Wilson and Nicholas Reville point out on their new website, Downhill Battle, Sony has a lot to answer for and they've posted a web page that lists heavily pornographic lyrics from Sony Music albums.

They're bad. Really bad.

From Sony Music's 2001 hit single Oochie Wally, featuring Nas and Bravehearts:

then that a*s gettin tossed / f**k a hustler book, penthouse or blacktale / I got bitches sendin my niggas flicks in jail

Little young thing go around my d**k with your tongue ring / Deep throat my nine inch,

F**k my whole crew, you know how we do / you got that good p*ssy I can share with my peoples

I'll f**k a big boned or slim chick / Beat that p*ssy up real quick then send home the bitch

And from last fall's Sony Music release "Man vs. Machine" by Xzibit: "Break Yourself:"

In the street make a nigga sleep six feet deep / F**k piece bare back doggystyle

F**k y'all, y'all homosexual / Hangin on my d**k like testicle


From Choke Me, Spank Me (Pull My Hair):

She act like she ain't gon' survive the night without my d**k all up in her a*s, so quick, so fast / I see her twin towers and I'm ready to crash

I don't want to love, you / I just want to f**k, you / You should bring your friends, through I'll f**k you and them, too

I know it's hard to talk with all this d**k in your mouth

And we're sure that if we did a search we'd find a lot more, and not just involving Sony.

I don't listen to hip-hop or rap because this stuff makes me sick to my stomach. Which is a real shame because I really love the beat, I love the construction and I love the over-all intent. And that's as both a musician and someone who couldn't live without music. To me, hip-hop and rap are the talking blues, millenium style. The difference is: the old blues singers and people such as Woody Guthrie get the same effect with using pure filth.

Freedom of expression is fine. In fact, when you get right down to it, it's what we're all about here. But this isn't freedom of speech. It's pure, unadultrated porn. And who publishes it?

Andrew Lack's Sony Music. And all the rest of them. And they're not trying to open up communication. They're just pandering to the lowest possible denominator so they can rake in the bucks.

But kids - young kids - listen to the lyrics and copy them.

And that's obscene.