Budden's Body Blow



Erin Curry of the SBC Baptist Press has the story behind a pressure group's unhappiness with a remix of Usher's "Confessions".

Rapper Joe Budden's remix version of the song "Confessions" by Usher includes the lines, "Pray that she abort that, If she's talkin' 'bout keepin' it/One hit to the stomach, She's leakin' it." A version of the song that does not contain the controversial lyrics reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in late June.

Care Net, an organization that supports a network of 750 crisis pregnancy centers, is calling on Island/Def Jam Records to denounce the song and for radio stations not to play it.



(Budden : if you don't wanna get hit in the stomach, don't let him get you pregnant)

"We think these lyrics are completely irresponsible," Kristin Hansen, a Care Net spokesperson, told Baptist Press July 2. "Record companies have a responsibility, an obligation to be aware of the impact that their songs are going to have on the culture. Yes, there's freedom of speech, but this goes one step too far. That's why we're urging Island/Def Jam Records to pull its support from this remix. We're urging people to call radio stations to make sure that it's not played."

A July 1 report on AllHipHop.com called the song an "underground mixtape remix" and featured Budden's thoughts on the lyrics.

"Everybody's heard the original Usher song and I'm just saying what a guy's mind state is when he's put in that situation," Budden said, presumably referring to the situation of an unwanted pregnancy. "Like it or not, that's a guy's mind state. That's how it can be when you are put in a powerless situation."

Posted: Fri - July 2, 2004 at 05:07 PM      

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