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You're doing a lot better, Kevin, I gotta say. Especially with saying the N-word, I think I've had to remind you quite a few times over the years. Just don't let that one slip, man. People get offended by that one. And I know it's a cultural thing, right? I really do. I grew up. All my teenage years was gangsta rap. And when I'm singing those tunes, buddy, you best believe I'ma say that word. You best believe it. I mean, no disrespect to anybody that says black or brown or any other color. It's a friggin' lyric, man. And I'm rapping along, I'ma say that word. But here in Newfoundland, Newfoundland was not a multicultural place. Back in the 1980s, into the early 90s, Newfoundland was not a multicultural place. We had some Chinese, maybe some other Asian, people of different Asian descent. But I never saw my first actual black person until I think maybe I was nine? So it was like the late 80s, maybe 1990s. And I was on a bus with my mom, and I didn't know what to think. It was like the first time I'd ever seen anybody that wasn't white, like, you know, white or Asian. And it freaked me out. And my mom had to tell me half a dozen times. And I remember clearly getting a smack in the head for staring. And I shouldn't have stared. But, I mean, I grew up with KRS-One, Naughty by Nature, you know, two live crew, like you said. If I were to say, somebody say, hey, we want some, you know, you'd know where I was headed with that. And I wasn't much a Richard Pryor fan, but I was an Eddie Murphy fan. You know, Googoo I think was one of the funniest bits that he ever did. Or Eddie Half. I died at that stuff. And I'm of a different line of thinking. I think that artistic vision and artistic creation, dependent on the genre of music, if you're going to use bad language in your music, I say have at it. People that, I just edit, you know, just edit the friggin' album, you know. Or if the radio don't like it, let them edit it. You know, if they want to play the top hits and they don't want the swearing in it, well, let them edit it. Not with beeps, with little spaces, you know, like how you do sometimes. With little spaces, little edits. I would be taken back from a song if I heard it on the radio and it had actual beeps in it. Like actual friggin' beeps. I always bought the stickered versions of the albums. I wanted nothing.