A number of hip hop pioneers, most prominently Kurtis Blow, will amass in the Bronx tomorrow to celebrate 'No Profanity Day', which sounds like a fucking good idea to me. The celebration will take the form of a three hour hip hop show featuring hip hop names like Afrika Bambaataa & the Soul Sonic Force, Grand Wizard Theodore, Grandmaster Mele Mel, Lovebug Starski and Blow himself, and the promise is that there'll be not one N, B, H, F, C or MF word uttered throughout the duration of the concert.
Blow, who has been a vocal supporter of the most recent rallying call to end the use of racist and sexist language in hip hop, told AllHipHop.com this week: "I've always been a stickler for being more conscious of the lyrics in hip hop. Not only do I think it's important to support no profanity in hip hop and rap music, but also it's more important to support no profanity in everyday life because in our society, most violence starts with the way we talk to each other".