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Track: boss it up
Artist: T33N X*
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[b]Mary "Tipper" Gore[/b] (b. 19 August 1948, Arlington, Virginia) is an American social activist and publicist, former wife of Tennessee Senator and 45th U.S. Vice President [url=https://discogs.com/artist/2258573]Al Gore[/url] (married from 1970 to 2010). She co-founded the infamous [b][a=Parents Music Resource Center][/b] public committee in May 1985, which successfully pressured [url=https://discogs.com/label/255302]RIAA[/url] into adopting "parental advisory" warnings for music albums (similar to MPAA "audience suitability" ratings in the film industry). Even though she resigned from [b]PMRC[/b] in 1993, shortly after becoming Second Lady, Gore earned a life-long "persona non grata" status in popular music with unprecedented amounts of ridicule, humiliation, and downright hatred from many prolific artists. Besides [a=Frank Zappa] and the [a=Twisted Sister]'s frontman, [a=Dee Snider], who participated in the widely publicized [url=https://discogs.com/label/511491]U.S. Senate[/url] hearings in September 1985, one of the most fervent critics of the "Parental Advisory" initiative was rapper [b][a=Ice-T][/b]. He ruthlessly bashed Tipper in his 1989 track "[url=https://discogs.com/master/107575]Freedom of Speech[/url]," with verses like: "[i]Think I give a fuck about some silly bitch named Gore? {…} Yo Tip, what's the matter? You ain't gettin' no dick? You're bitchin' about rock'n'roll, that's censorship, dumb bitch[/i]." The rapper further pointed out the contradictory nature of PG warnings, as instantly recognizable B&W stickers indicated the album must be "spicy enough," attracting listeners rather than deterring them: "[i]Hey PMRC, you stupid fuckin' assholes. The sticker on the record is what makes 'em sell gold. Can't you see, you alcoholic idiots, The more you try to suppress us, the larger we get[/i]." The song featured [a=Jello Biafra], frontman and founder of [a=Dead Kennedys], who faced a lengthy 1.5-year legal battle after the release of [i][Link][/i] album, that featured [a=HR Giger]'s controversial "Landscape #XX" painting inside; even though the August 1987 hearings resulted in a mistrial with charges dismissed, the lawsuit nearly bankrupted Biafra and his label, [l=Alternative Tentacles]. In 1991, Ice-T concluded his [i][Link][/i] album on [l=Sire]/[l=Warner Bros. Records] with a spoken word outro, "You Shoulda Killed Me Last Year," featuring a "special shout-out:" [i]Fuck the police, fuck the FBI, fuck the DEA, fuck the CIA, fuck Tipper Gore, [url=https://discogs.com/artist/879473]Bush[/url] and his [url=https://discogs.com/artist/4904516]cripple bitch[/url][/i]!" In his 1994 book [i][Link][/i], the musician further stated: "[i]Tipper Gore is the only woman I ever directly called a [u]bitch[/u] on any of my records, and I meant that in the most negative sense of the word[/i]." [b]Notable examples of Tipper Gore's reprimand[/b] 📀 1988: [a=Alice Donut]'s debut album [i][Link][/i] on [l=Alternative Tentacles] ends with the song "Tipper Gore," which mockingly praised Gore for her "crusade" 📀 1989: The [a=Aerosmith] song [i][Link][/i], explicitly about sex, featured a line: "[i]Even Tipper thinks I'm alright[/i]." Two years later, during his acceptance speech at the 33rd Annual Grammy Awards, [a=Steven Tyler] thanked Tipper Gore and [url=https://discogs.com/artist/15134156]Jesse Helmes[/url] (1921—2008) for ensuring that if "[i]an album has a few dirty words, it'll sell another million copies[/i]" 📀 1990: [a=Suicidal Tendencies] referenced Gore in their song "Lovely" from [i][Link][/i] CD/LP on [l=Epic]: "[i]Tipper, babe, don't you remember me // Now I'm kinder, gentler, and so happy[/i]" 📀 1990: The bonus track on [a=Warrant]'s 1990 album [i][Link][/i], titled "Ode to Tipper Gore," was a 54-sec montage of expletives and obscenities edited from the band's live performances 📀 1990: [a=Kid Rock]'s debut album [i][Link][/i] had a song "Pimp of the Nation" with the line: "[i]Tipper Gore is my highest paid whore[/i]" 📀 1990: [url=https://discogs.com/artist/196350]Cinderella[/url] sang in "Shelter Me" off the band's [i][Link][/i] album: "[i]Tipper led the war against the record industry, she said she saw the devil on her MTV[/i]" 📀 1991: [a=Furnaceface] mentioned a "little sticker" that [i]only whets my appetite […] only makes us want to hear it that much more[/i] in the song "We Love You, Tipper Gore" from their debut album [i][Link][/i] 📻 1991: [a=Todd Rundgren]'s non-album track [i][Link][/i], which he occasionally performed live on tours, featured a verse: "[i]I wanna fuck you, Tipper, 'cause you showed me that // Things are still the same, Everybody's parents turn out lame, I wanna say 'fuck you,' Tipper Gore[/i]" 📀 1992: [a=Ramones] addressed their song [i][url=https://discogs.com/master/39314]Censorshit[/url][/i], which also mentions [a=Frank Zappa] and [a=Ozzy Osbourne], to Tipper Gore 📀 1993: [a=KMFDM]'s song [i][Link][/i] featured the lyrics: "[i]Our records have stickers with a warning from Tipper. 'Cause they're no good for kids; if we'd get her, we'd strip her[/i]" 📀 1997: Canadian punk band [url=https://discogs.com/artist/1377709]Reset[/url] had a song "Go Away" on their debut album [i][Link][/i], with the verse: "[i]Tipper, won't you understand the message that I want to say. It's kind of rude but here it goes: it's ‘fuck you!’ I don't like what you do, and I don't like you[/i]" 📀 2002: [a=Eminem] rapped in "White America," the opening track on [i][Link][/i] album: "[i]To burn the {flag} and replace it with a Parental Advisory sticker. To spit liquor in the faces of this democracy of hypocrisy. Fuck you, Ms. Cheney; Fuck you, Tipper Gore[/i]"

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