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Bus Radio Latest News 2008
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A game-changer in Florida. Revolt against BusRadio's dirty artists may spread.
BusRadio Busted
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Show could be over for Bus Radio on Seminole County school buses
Seminole parents, school officials want to pull plug on program
Dave Weber | Sentinel Staff Writer
May 8, 2008
SANFORD - So much for canned music on Seminole County school buses.
A committee of parents and school officials that has monitored the experiment with Bus Radio -- a daily program of prerecorded music and ads piped into buses -- recommended Wednesday that the School Board pull the plug when classes end in June.
Committee members said concerns about songs the kids were hearing outweighed the soothing benefits of music for the ride.
"Bus Radio couldn't agree they wouldn't play songs from albums that had parental advisory warnings on them, and that was pretty much a deal-breaker," said Amy Lockhart, a Sanford parent who served on the committee.
While the School Board will make the final decision May 27, it's expected to go along with the committee's recommendation.
If judged a success, the radio show would have been expanded to all of the district's fleet of about 400 buses next school year.
The experiment with music on 53 county buses has been controversial since its start last fall. Criticism centered on kids being captive audiences for ads and sometimes suggestive songs, which the committee had struggled to weed out.
for the rest of the article http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/seminole/orl-busrad0808may08,0,5094823.story
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Another toxic artist on BusRadio's playlist.
Children, Baby Boy Would Like To Sing You A Song
New CD promoted on BusRadio.
The rap artist Baby Boy Da Prince has brought his drugged-out sound to BusRadio. This week, Obligation discovered that kids are now being forced to listen to "The Way I Live" by this explicit content singer from New Orleans.
This artist sings as if he's either drunk or on drugs. It's the gangsta style that BusRadio is becoming infamous for.
BusRadio edited out some of the lyrics and they think that by doing so they have made Baby Boy Da Prince and this particular song "age-appropriate" for kids. The lyrics they cut out talk about women getting drunk on Grey Goose vodka and getting "bent." Having sex with them is all right because Baby Boy is a "ladies pimp."
Children will buy this CD - and when they do, they will buy the "Parental Advisory - Explicit Content" stickered CD with ALL the lyrics.
There is absolutely NOTHING "age-appropriate" about this artist's music being played on a school bus.
Audio of BusRadio playing "The Way I Live"
BusRadio Plays BABY BOY DA PRINCE |
THE WAY I LIVE Song Lyrics
BABY BOY DA PRINCE
CD: ACROSS THE WATER
This is the way I live.
Lil' Boy still pushin' big wheels
I stack my money, lay low, and chill.
Don't need to work hard that's the way I feel, I feel, I
This is the way I live.
Lil' Boy still pushin' big wheels
I stack my money, lay low, and chill.
Don't need to work hard that's the way I feel, I feel, I
This is the way I live.
Six months later now we're big dog status.
Name elevated but I still act average.
Rockin' shows in Dallas, ball like I play for the Mavericks.
West Bank rapper and I'm one of the baddest.
French Rivera spot and I'm getting in shape man.
I think I'm Super Man without a cape man.
Ridin' all day hustlin'; all for the cake man.
I'm a Benjamin stack one inch taller than Great Danes.
First they made cheap Ray-Ban like a felon.
I'm growin' up now spittin' hotter than Mohellans
I'm a steal every girl ever gon' to fly.
I'm a young little dude, stay runnin' from cops.
Emerald Row is the place where I got my props.
People love me in da hood they don't want me to stop.
So uhh, that's the only way I know how to rock.
And I'm a stay rappers like won't stop 'til I drop.
This is the way I live.
Lil' Boy still pushin' big wheels
I stack my money, lay low, and chill.
Don't need to work hard that's the way I feel, I feel, I
This is the way I live.
Lil' Boy still pushin' big wheels
I stack my money, lay low, and chill.
Don't need to work hard that's the way I feel, I feel, I
This is the way I live.
I I's Baby Boy and I done it again.
I'm ridin fly with D-Wizzle in 'cedes Benz
Twenty two wanna ride with the ladies then
Red Bull, Grey Goose, now the ladies bent
Now we go and do a thing under a shady tent
And they don't question what I say cause I'm a ladies pimp.
See this little one right here this fellow got stripes.
And I is represent, my rail room for life.
Money in my pocket but I still act trife
While I in da club they say the parlor a'int right.
Look I'm-doing great that's the way I feel.
Hustlin' hard all day that's the way I live. [These lyrics are left out by BusRadio.]
This is the way I live.
Lil' Boy still pushin' big wheels
I stack my money, lay low, and chill.
Don't need to work hard that's the way I feel, I feel, I
This is the way I live.
Lil' Boy still pushin' big wheels
I stack my money, lay low, and chill.
Don't need to work hard that's the way I feel, I feel, I
This is the way I live.
This the two-seat rider with the ketchup inside.
Red pepper paint must believe my ish ride.
They pause like stop signs when they rollin' up.
Cause' when the doors open up, they open UP.
I'm Lamboin' it I was stashed, off stage I'm throwin' it.
Cause they say I'm like Katrina with money, I blow the shhhh.
Real been gravy, three years out of da eighties.
Solos, shabo's valley animals played it.
Commodores mirages, not the Nike hirages.
It cost 250 on up to put your foot inside this.
Y'all was wearing rocks that was my time to shine.
Don't give me viesels y'all thinkin' this McDonalds size.
I been fly I I I I I I I I from the crib to the ri I I I I I de
Fifty-Four inch screens 26 inches from the ceiling dude.
The plasma look like a projector up in da livin' room homie!
This is the way I live.
Lil' Boy still pushin' big wheels
I stack my money, lay low, and chill.
Don't need to work hard that's the way I feel, I feel, I
This is the way I live.
Lil' Boy still pushin' big wheels
I stack my money, lay low, and chill.
Don't need to work hard that's the way I feel, I feel, I
This is the way I live. |
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Few parents would want their children exposed to the vulgar artists being plugged on BusRadio.
BusRadio's Vulgar Artists
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Another toxic artist gets promoted to young children.
For All Your Jay-Z News
Here is an article on BusRadio.com about Jay-Z. It was taken from their homepage which means children - of all ages - cannot help but see it.
BusRadio tells kids to "Watch this space for more Jay-Z news as it happens..." Oh brother.
What makes rap singer Jay-Z an "age-appropriate" personality to be promoting to little kids?
Q: What do these Jay-Z CDs have in common?
   
  
A: All his CDs have a "Parental Advisory - Explicit Content" sticker on them.
For some reason BusRadio believes elementary schoolchildren should be kept informed about events in this sleazy artist's life. Here's yet another reason for school districts to avoid BusRadio at all costs.
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BusRadio Outlawed From All NY Public School Buses
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BusRadio's Content Board gives stamp of approval to Shawty Lo.
Dey Know Better
Vile rap singer Shawty Lo passed BusRadio's rigid screening process. Many young people are getting their first taste of this artist as they listen to BusRadio got to and from school.
From Jim Metrock:
A new song is on BusRadio's playlist and it's another shocker.
The song is "Dey Know" by Shawty Lo, an Atlanta rapper known for his drugged-out, explicit, gangsta rap lyrics.
This is the CD that "Dey Know" comes from. This is the CD children will buy if they like the BusRadio-played song.
Add Shawty Lo to the long list of explicit-content artists that BusRadio has featured.
It is difficult for people who don't listen to a lot of hip hop music to understand the meaning of the lyrics. Words and phrases can have several meanings. The people at BusRadio know what these songs are about and they play them anyhow. They hope parents and school administrators don't find out about it. That is why BusRadio refuses to list the songs they play on their website. That would make it too easy for parents.
The lyrics for "Dey Know" are below. When you hear the audio clip from BusRadio, you'll notice that BusRadio blanks out the word "Nigga" and "hoes." BusRadio thinks by doing that the song and the artist magically become "age-appropriate" - hogwash. BusRadio is dumping raw sewage on kids and BusRadio is making Big Time Money doing it.
Interestingly, BusRadio did not bleep out "Dope boys" and they didn't bleep out "kush" which according to the Urban Dictionary means marijuana. (Shawty Lo's reputation is based on drug usage. His one-year sentence to prison for drug possession gives him "street cred" with his young gangsta rap fans.)
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1. Kush
A high grade strand of marijuana. As in... The kush was good.
2. Kush
Good to High quality Weed. As in... S***, that Kush was good...
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Listen to the song for yourself: "Dey Know" on BusRadio (You'll hear one song ending before BusRadio plays "Dey Know." This is the ending of Fergie's "Clumsy" off her explicit content-stickered CD "The Dutchess." Children hear one explicit artist after another on BusRadio. Notice we didn't say they heard one explicit song after another. BusRadio knows they can't get away with that, but so far they have gotten away with injecting some of America's most vile artists into children's lives.)
Lyrics to "Dey Know" by Shawty Lo (CD: Units in the City) |
[Chorus:] L O L O Dey Know Dey Know (Repeat 4 times)
[Verse 1:]
Shawty Lo I got flavor
Cuz you know the kid got paper
Like 40 don't sava
BANKHEAD been pullin capas
The way you drop woulda thought I had a taser
Call me street like the raver?
Shawty Lo, A.T.L, I'm the MAYOR
Street Nigga but I can be tailored
Every now and then shawty might rock gators
Me and that kussssh I got acres
Yeahhh no more nosy xxx neighbors
Bigupp to all my HATERS
[Chorus: Repeat 4 times]
[Verse 2:]
Im the Man (PAUSE) and I know that
I got cash (PAUSE) I'm talkin throw back
100 grand (PAUSE) what's that
I hit the club (PAUSE) and I blow that
all these hoes know Lo Dat
Im picture perfect made for Kodak
Let's talk money
I got plenty
DOPE BOYZ LET'S GET GET GET IT!!
[Chorus: Repeat 4 times(twice)]
[Verse 3:]
Hey Hey Hey Hey how u doin it's L O
'73 I'm the one in the middle
I don't need B I can rock it achapello
No one but two all I needed was a skittle?
YeaHH now Im Geekd Screamin Yessir just like G
A-town fitted who but me
L O G know He know They Know I am |
When this rap singer mentions money he is talking about drug money. When he talks about blowing $100,000 in a "club" he means a strip club. Kids who hear Shawty Lo played repeatedly on BusRadio may download other songs of his such as this drug song...
Lyrics to "Easily I Approach" by Shawty Lo |
Intro:]
I'm da man round here capish,
Brown paper bag ol dope boy money,
Ol dope boy money,
[Chorus:]
I'm da man round here capish, small face hundred 94 money
Brown paper bag ol dope boy money,
Ol dope boy money
[Verse 1:]
Easily I approache the microphone ya da kids no joke,
Tell yo hoe to get offa my d***,
Hipnotize by this s***that I spit, ya
Slow flow new flavor in yo ear,
I used to swear mane talk was cheap,
Now I'm in it 20 thousand feet, daaamn
20 thousand to speak?
17 5 if you want a key,
Geta ten pack 17 a piece,
I'm da man round here capish,
Call me big bird like sessame street
[Chorus x2]
[Verse 2:]
Shwaty whatchu doin, ain't doin nothin
Cookin upa chicken cause the rent due (money)
55 hundred, dey know money,
Magic city money?, blowin money,
Body tap wednesday, still throwin money,
Units in tha city I'm a sole anotha hundred,
Small faced huned, 94 money,
Brown paper bag ol dope boy money,
Man I'm a stunna, nigga u's a fronta,
Nigga u's a bitch and u get it from yo mama,
Real brick runna, nigga on da conna,
On my grandmama got mo chickens than a farma,
[Chorus x2]
[Verse 3:]
Early in da mornin, slippas and pajamas,
Gota get em ready cause them country boys is commin,
And I'ont belive in karmah, I belive in numbers,
Add mo zero's, I need mo commas,
Back I tijauana, money close to water,
Can get em from the border, break em down in georgia,
17 5 make em where you can afford em,
Where yo peoples at tellem gon and place they order.
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BusRadio knows the sleazy background of Shawty Lo. The Mat of The Mat and Lucia is Matthew Blades a drive-time DJ in Milwaukee. He knows the filthy background of Shawty Lo.
Shawty Lo made a big splash in his hometown of Atlanta when the group he was with D4L ("Down for Life") recorded a song called "Laffy Taffy." Like much of this music it is a dirty joke set to "music."
| From Wikipedia article on the song "Laffy Taffy" Shawty Lo's big hit with his group D4L |
| There has been some debate regarding the meaning of the phrase "Laffy Taffy". Many understand the term to mean a woman's labia minora because of its resemblance to "stretched out taffy". It is a phrase commonly used by men who attend strip clubs. Women with larger labia minora lips are said to have "laffy taffy". The song's music video is set in a strip club. |
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1. laffy taffy
(n)This is a slang term for the female genitalia-- more specifically, the labia minora-- so termed for it's resemblance to stretched (pink) laffy taffy. Therefore, the term may also carry with it connotation of excessive sexual intercourse which can result in a stretched or elongated labia minora.
That ho had so much sex, when she spreads her legs, Willy Wonka himself would envy her Laffy Taffy. |
That's how this artist/thug got started and now, with the help of BusRadio, Shawty Lo is going to add thousands to his fan base.
BusRadio is playing Shawty Lo on their website for children of ALL ages.
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Another explicit artist gets airtime on school buses.
Diddy
Explicit artist Diddy has become a favorite of BusRadio DJs, so...
explicit artist Diddy will become a favorite of your children.
The cover of the CD ("Press Play") BusRadio is promoting to kids.
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We know of no organization that supports a school board's decision to enter into a contract with Bus Radio or Channel One.
2006 Coalition Letter
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Here's a Shout Out to BusRadio - Stop distracting drivers!
I Heard My Name! I Heard My Name!
Listen to these BusRadio "shout outs."
Q: What do they have in common?
BusRadio Shout Outs (April 2008)
A: A bus driver is involved. When a student asks the BusRadio DJ to "Shout Out" the name of the bus driver, it is fairly safe to assume that the driver can hear the BusRadio program. He or she is probably told by the students that his or her name may be hear on the radio soon. Bus safety experts have urged schools to move speakers away from drivers so they won't be distracted. There have been two significant bus accidents were a train hit a school bus and a loud radio was a contributing factor in the driver not being aware of the oncoming train. All pupil transportation directors know of these two accidents because they helped change school bus transportation rules.
If you listen all the way through you will even hear two bus drivers calling BusRadio. We don't know if they were driving at the time but even if they were not, this shows drivers are used to interacting with BusRadio's two goofy DJs.
BusRadio's two goofball DJs Matthew Blades and Lucia Nazzaro.
Don't let anyone tell you BusRadio is not a potential distraction for school bus drivers.
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Decision to play middle school version on web undermines age-appropriate claims.
Hard Candy
Madonna is hot for BusRadio. Her song "4 Minutes" off this CD is being played for ALL children on the BusRadio website.
BusRadio says they are now playing their middle school version of their program on the BusRadio.com website. That's a problem because elementary school students forced to listen to BusRadio on their school bus are told repeatedly to visit the website when they get home.
Therefore whatever is playing on the website is being aimed at elementary school kids. This flies in the face of BusRadio's claim that they make different content for different age groups. It would have made more sense for the company to stream the elementary school version on their site. But if they did that then the older kids might miss their Madonna, Timbaland, Fergie and other edgy artists BusRadio is known for.
Below is a snapshot of BusRadio's webcast.
From BusRadio's March 3, 2008 press release:
"The Web stream includes an ever-changing rotation of the same musical content and original programming heard across the country on BusRadio's middle school program. Web listeners will also hear favorite DJ segments, BusRadio's most interesting and entertaining celebrity interviews, the same informative public service announcements featured every day on BusRadio's national programming, as well as a new, Web-exclusive show hosted by DJ Chicken Wing of BusRadio's Mat and Lucia show. BusRadio's Web streaming adheres to the same strict standards as its daily bus programming. BusRadio editing standards far exceed those of commercial FM radio -- by eliminating all inappropriate subject matter and lyrics from its broadcasts -- while still playing songs that kids want to hear. All of BusRadio's programming content is carefully reviewed by an internal content review board."
BusRadio of course can't adhere to the "same strict standards as its daily bus programming" because they admit they are now playing "middle school" music for ANY child who visits their website.
Obligation believes BusRadio should list all the songs its plays on each version of its show and also list all the products and services advertised. Parents can then easily review the lists instead of being forced to listen to hours of the webcast and then still not know what was played on their child's bus.
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