Or is this lyric not suitable for radio 1?

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Listening to Radio 1 yesterday around 8:20, Greg James show, lots of listeners calling in saying it was first day of the new school year.

Little Nas X - industry baby
And these girls know that I'm nasty (mm)
I sent her back to her boyfriend
With my handprint on her *

The blanked out part is ass cheek.

Personally, I don’t think this is an appropriate lyric ever, it normalises sexual domestic violence. But on Radio 1 during the school run time is totally not ok, they know young children listen to the show. Yes parents can switch it off, but by the time you have realised it is inappropriate the lyric has been sung.

So AIBU?

You are bing unreasonable: it is just a song
You are NOT being unreasonable: inappropriate lyric for that time and show

Not appropriate for radio during the morning school run.

I grimaced reading that, I completely agree. I don't know the song, in the words of my generation may i ask is it a toe tapper? I'll never forget watching my young niece singing along to R Kelly's "It's getting hot in here, so take off all your clothes", and that song Wake Me Up about suicide. They both sound great until you hear the words.

The whole premise of the song is inappropriate. Blanking out 'ass cheek' doesn't help.

It reminds me of seeing Pretty Woman (heavily cut) broadcast on a Saturday afternoon in a Muslim country. Just pointless.

R Kelly is guilty of a lot of things, but “hot in here” is Nelly.
(Also YANBU OP)

Look at the lyrics for the whole song, I’d say they are far more offensive than what you’ve mentioned above.

Hot in Herre [sic] is Nelly, not R Kelly.

I don’t see that lyric as being about sexual violence, personally. In the narrative of the song, a woman is cheating on her boyfriend with Jack Harlow (who raps the handprint bit) and this line is sort of euphemism for him making sure the guy finds out that his girlfriend is cheating on him.

Songs have always been vehicles for more adult themes. Golden Brown (The Stranglers) is about heroin, as is Enjoy the Silence (Depeche Mode). Semisonic’s Secret Smile is about being able to give a woman an orgasm. All My Life (Foo Fighters) is about oral sex. And More Than Words by Extreme is about a bloke trying to persuade his girlfriend to suck him off.

Many of these songs will have been played on drive time or breakfast shows all over the world, and have been for years.

The lyrics aren’t great but I think saying that they normalise sexual domestic violence is probably a bit strong. Radio 1 does tend to be a bit more risqué than other stations so if you’re worried I would switch to Radio 2.

In the grand scheme of things I can’t get worked up about a song lyric - the kids listening to this will likely be watching and listening to much worse in the playground and on tik tok. That’s what I’d be worried about/look at changing.

YABU

It doesn't meet the threshold for language before a certain time so unclench

You're not wrong but that's tame compared to the grime shit they play constantly.

Oops, I've always thought it was R Kelly!

It’s not about domestic violence - not sure how you managed to misconstrue spanking during sex

Unfortunately many on here are hard of thinking

I was in the car yesterday afternoon with my teens and Super Freaky Girl by Nicki Minaj came on. Even with a few of the words beeped out, there is no hiding what she wants licked, go down and kiss it while it's slipping and sliding. It is a graphic song even though it's not got that many beeped words. Nobody needs to listen to that when they're sat next to their mother!

I thought that 🤔

I agree with this. Isn't the song supposed to be about cheating rather than anything else?
Tik tok is 100% worse if you don't keep a close eye on what your kids are watching

As a dv survivor I don't see that as domestic violence at all. In fact to say that it is is just pure watering the term down and more offensive to victims of dv than the song lyric.

Also there is way worse than that played on the radio.

The lyrics you've quoted are about spanking during sex, not domestic violence!

Why do rappers get away with saying whatever they want, yet anyone else gets cancelled?

Rap is digusting.

@hennybeans I just heard that song this morning (during the school run) and couldn't believe they are allowed to even play the censored version!

Ditch the radio and keep a playlist on Spotify or similar when in the car.

Grime and rap music is just the pits.

The guy who rapped this lyric is white. Try again.

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Maybe gransnet is more your style

You might not see that as sexual violence, but i do. It's about a man "marking" a woman's body as his property. Not ok at all and very misogynistic.