bigted Posted April 30, 2007 Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 Grammy Award Winning Rapper Chamillionaire Profanity Free; Ditches 'N' Word On New LP By Danielle Harling and Dove Date: 4/27/2007 6:15 pm With the debate over the use of language in Hip-Hop gaining momentum by the day, few rappers have spoken on the issue until now. Houston rapper Chamillionaire has garnered much success with No. 1 hits like "Ridin" and has risen to prominence on the Houston mixtape circuit, but what most people may not know is that Chamillionaire rarely sacrifices lyrical content for profanities. “On my new album I don’t say the word n***a, I don’t curse nowhere on my whole album,” Chamillionaire told AllHipHop.com. “People are not even gonna know it. I guarantee if I don’t go out and say it in the media they’re not even gonna realize that. People go back and listen to all of my old mixtapes and don’t even realize that I wasn’t even doing all that type of stuff. I was saying n***a, but I wasn’t saying the 'f' word or [the] 'b' word. I was never saying those types of things...I hear that so much and it restricts your creativity and how far it can go.” Chamillionaire, who was recently certified by the RIAA as the first multi-platinum Mastertone artist in history, is the son of a Muslim father and Christian mother. The Grammy Award winning rapper, born Hakeem Seriki has sold millions of records. He said that Hip-Hop is the art form that seems to be targeted the most when it comes to language, but other mediums will still promote the use of profanities. Chamillionaire also said that the recent criticism and finger pointing at Hip-Hop was only creating a bigger generational gap. "People going to get rap CDs and rolling them over with steamrollers, what is that doing? That aint doing nothing but creating rebellion and people need to realize that," Chamillionaire explained. Chamillionaire recently released the single "I'm Not A Criminal" featuring Kelis and a remix to the song featuring Snoop Dogg and Busta Rhymes. The singles are the first releases from Chamillionaire's upcoming album titled Ultimate Victory. “I don’t get caught up in the actual ‘This word is bad’ because with everything you take away there’s gonna be something there to replace it,” Chamillionaire told AllHipHop.com. "Everybody needs to focus their direction on these younger kids that are looking at them. If we help raise them right this is gonna be the new generation and this new generation is gonna be more like me maybe and just don’t curse or brag about being a gangster." Ultimate Victory is slated to hit stores this summer. The album features appearances by Snoop Dogg, Pimp C, Slick Rick, Lil' Wayne, Busta Rhymes, Devin The Dude and others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcpbball30 Posted April 30, 2007 Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 I like Chamillionaire, the more music that I hear of his, the more I like it. He seems like he has his head on straight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Posted April 30, 2007 Report Share Posted April 30, 2007 when I heard him on mixtapes ...i was not a fan...i disliked his songs..."stay true" was the first I heard from him...and I just really disliked his rapping... but i've seen him in interviews and he carries himself better than any rapper in the game today. he'll wear a suit if he should, he'll sacrifice street slang for descriptive explanations in interviews...and this now... seriously, if there is ever a way to at least make me revisit a rapper i initially swore off, it's showing the unbelievable respect he shows not only to the industry but his consumers... :thumbsup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevilsJim89 Posted May 1, 2007 Report Share Posted May 1, 2007 yeah lets see, this will probably last an album ..funny cause now LL is gonna have a CD with a parental sticker on it ..talk about role reversals eh? lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Hero1 Posted May 1, 2007 Admin Report Share Posted May 1, 2007 I can just imagine record labels pressuring them.. you gotta swear.. you gotta rap about guns drugs violence hoes and your cars and clothes.. thats whats hot right now! bah :paperbag: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JumpinJack AJ Posted May 1, 2007 Report Share Posted May 1, 2007 I give him props for that. Reguardless of the outcome, seeing someone making the effort gets my respect. I'm still wondering about that LL album. No news about has come out about it in months. Seems like a forced or careless move on his part...directly releated 2 Jay-Z's ridiculous business-mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxFly Posted May 1, 2007 Report Share Posted May 1, 2007 It will be interesting to see what happens. Best of luck to him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
analogue Posted May 1, 2007 Report Share Posted May 1, 2007 I tell you the day FP get's a parental sticker on one of his albums then i'm burning my hip hop collection lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hymn Strings Posted May 1, 2007 Report Share Posted May 1, 2007 Got a lot of respect for Chamillionaire. Maybe this profanity-free thing is a publicity stunt, but hey I welcome it. His debut album was relatively profanity free except the guest artists on there. I just don't care to hear the word b**** in the music ever, or any slang terms of woman's private parts but every other word is fair game I believe. Chamillionaire is a solid rapper, nothing revolutionary or avant garde, and even though his voice sounds a lot like 50's, he's a much better rapper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfuqua23 Posted May 3, 2007 Report Share Posted May 3, 2007 The profanity free is no publicity stunt. I never caught Chamillionaire dropping bad words, hardly ever. It was slim to none every song. Chamillionaire is not the typical mainstream rapper of today's world. He really didn't even have to announce it. He does everything creatively he can. He's not all about one thing, like material gloating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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