Music | November 22, 2007 | 6 comments

Rap music expletives lead to driver's arrest

source: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10477943

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A man playing rap music heavy on expletives on his car stereo was arrested after a senior policeman took offence at the bad language.

Rotorua police area commander Inspector Bruce Horne was working late in his office when he heard the music from nearly a block away.

"They parked up at the Visitor Information Centre, threw open their doors and were listening to their rap music," he said.

"It's questionable about the musical value of something when it's just a string of expletives."

Mr Horne said police officers went to investigate the noise and ended up arresting a man for offensive behaviour as a result of the music he was playing. Another man in the car was charged with breaching the liquor ban.


Was this uncalled for, or was the music uncalled for?
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6 comments // Rap music expletives lead to driver's arrest

  • barkway
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      barkway  

    • Hey I know; here's a fitting punishment. Lock them in a car and play the Bee Gees, or Beach Boys, or Barry Manilow, or what's-her-name, Celine Dion, or someone screaming Shakespeare at the SAME VOLUME they force us to put up with their noise!

    • 4 years ago
  • barkway
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      barkway  

    • While I've heard all the arguments about Rap as an extension or explanation of a culture, I still find it offensive and not only for the language but for the NOISE! (and even worse when you are trapped next to it in a vehicle at a red light with no way to escape and your ears feeling like they will explode at any moment. Isn't this a public health issue?). I cannot for the life of me figure out how it can be called music. No one actually "sings." They talk or shout (and most of that is incomprehensible/inaudbile....as in "what are they saying?"). There is very little musical skill to the actual "instrumentation" which for the most part is comprised of techno-noises made by machines rather than instruments and what instruments are actually played seem to merely repeat the same monotonous beats over and over and over. I can accept the value of this genre to the people it claims to represent....I CANNOT consider it "music."

    • 4 years ago
  • covelogibbs
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  • mattbrawn
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      mattbrawn  

    • I can never make up my mind on this, sometimes I feel like it is too gratuitous in terms of violence and misogyny but on the other hand everyone should be able to make their own decisions on what they listen to. Maybe limit it to private listening for explicit music or give it an age censorship like films etc? I don't think censorship really works, it doesn't take a genius to work out what has been "bleeped' out; check out the video and make up your own mind!

    • 4 years ago
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