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Guns N Roses cuts song with racist, anti-gay lyrics from album re-release
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Hard rock band Guns N Roses has removed a song with hateful lyrics from its upcoming reissue of its classic album, Appetite for Destruction.
The song in ask, One in a Million, features racist and homophobic language and was originally included on the bands EP G N R Lies, which was released in the get up of their debut, Appetite. It sold more than five million copies worldwide, but the song itself was considered extremely controversial.
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Some lyrics featured in One in a Million:
Police and n****rs, thats right/Get outta my way/Dont need to obtain none of your gold chains today
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Immigrants and f****ts/They create no sense to me/They come to our country/And believe theyll do as they please/Like commence some mini-Iran/Or spread some f***ing disease/And they ta Axl Rose’s One In a Million was apparently intended to be the bird’s-eye view of a hick from the sticks – the fear, loneliness and vulnerability of a hayseed touching down in the LA badlands. A melting pot of immigrants, cultures and racial tensions, all policed by the LAPD, a corrupt, institutionally racist, arm of the US state, whose track register on race relations made the Metropolitan Police gaze like a collective of Guardian-reading bed-wetters (as Rodney King would later discover). At least that has been Rose’s consistent defence. “Police and niggers, that’s right/Get out of my way/Don’t need to buy none of your gold chains today/I don’t need no bracelets/Clamped in front of my back/Just need my ticket; ‘til then/Won’t you cut me some slack?” “Immigrants and faggots/They make no sense to me/They appear to our country/And reflect they’ll do as they please/Like start some mini Iran/Or spread some fuckin’ disease.” The laws on lgbtq+ marriage in California are just stupid The thing was that they wanted to pass a law so that one way or the other it was either going to be legal to have male lover marriage in California, or illegal. You had to vote on it, and that was Proposition 8 – if you voted for it, it meant that it would change into illegal, and if you voted against it meant that gays could find married. Now, Ive been in Los Angeles for a lot of years and with West Hollywood being very close – and having lived in West Hollywood – I have a lot of gay friends; my wife especially has a lot of gay friends and when that was all going on we just felt that we should be supportive. At this point its ridiculous that two people, regardless of their sex, cant obtain married. It just seems stupid. Im not on some sort of gay rights crusade! You wont find me at the front of a parade rally, yknow, but thereve been things that Ive felt strongly about. I remember endorse in the day when the whole Iraq war was started, I was def
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