The Rolling Stones Will No Longer Play ‘Brown Sugar.’ And It’s About Damn Time.

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 This month, British rock icons The Rolling Stones—sans the late, nice Charlie Watts—head out to stadiums throughout the US for his or her No Filter tour the place, mockingly, they’ll be self-censoring one in all their greatest hits.

In a brand new Los Angeles Occasions interview with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, the 2 had been requested why the tune “Brown Sugar,” which depicts chattel slavery—particularly, the systemic rape of Black girls and ladies—was noticeably absent from their setlist.

“You picked up on that, huh?” Richards mentioned. “I’m attempting to determine with the sisters fairly the place the meat is. Didn’t they perceive this was a tune concerning the horrors of slavery? However they’re attempting to bury it. In the meanwhile, I don’t wish to get into conflicts with all of this shit. However I’m hoping that we’ll be capable to resurrect the babe in her glory someplace alongside the observe.”

Jagger remarked, “We’ve performed ‘Brown Sugar’ each night time since 1970, so typically you assume, we’ll take that one out for now and see the way it goes. We’d put it again in.”

It’s clear from Richards’ bewilderment on the scrutiny the tune has aroused and he and Jagger’s need to reincorporate it again into the present that its elimination was most probably the doing of a publicist—and for good purpose. The primary observe from their 1971 album Sticky Fingers, which reached No. 1 on the Billboard Sizzling 100, is nearly cartoonish in its degree of offensiveness and will simply be mistaken because the creation of a YouTube edgelord, if learn on paper. The primary verse rapidly establishes the scene of a slave ship carrying Africans to be offered in New Orleans, and, from there, presents the crude in

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