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Unfortunately national radio won't play songs in their explicit versions. It is exactly why clean versions of the songs are issued. Sometimes the artist will rerecord a song with clean lyrics in place of the more raunchy ones. There is also the songs that just bleep out the dirty words, hence the clean version. There is radio channels like Sirius where you can listen to songs explicitly. In an effort to conform to radio standards several songs over the years have titles modified. Some are just plain stupid and some are just questionable. Hood Figga, Gorilla Zoe Gorilla Zoe scored a club anthem with "Hood Figga" but that's not the title you would hear in the club. You would hear it in its original form, "Hood Nigga". My Girl Got A Best Friend, Ray L Many people thought Ray L or Ray Lavender was T-Pain when he released his single, "My Girl Got A Girl Friend". The song spoke of a bi-sexual lover and it is a subject that's too racy for radio so the...

For radio purposes the song's titled was modified to "Hood Figga" when in actuality it was "Hood Nigga". ---------------- Now playing: Gorilla Zoe - Hood Figga (Video) via FoxyTunes

1. Expensive - The best time to buy a new title is the first week of release or if the album is a top seller, it usually stays on sale[except at Best Buy]. 2. Downloading - When you download an album, you basically are getting it for free. Really when you think about it though you are still spending money to get it. The record companies and artists may not be getting that money but you have to have internet or you have to pay a bootlegger to get you an album or even a mix CD. 3. Promotion - Sometimes people don't even know that albums are out. You don't know how many times people have told me or said "Oh I didn't know they had a CD out!". Record companies fault. And a whole lot of others. 4. Quality - CD's just don't contain a lot of quality music anymore. There has been a serious decline of quality CD's in the last few years. I will say that the downward spiral in sales have forced some artists to work harder and go beyond to make a quality album....