The Dirty South rolled up on Capitol Hill today, as rappers David Banner (left) and Master P testified before the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection in a hearing organized by Rep. Bobb Rush (D-Ill). Master P, who has renounced profanity in his lyrics, apologized to women for his old records: “I was honestly wrong,” he said. Banner, on the other hand — who, we must say, looks excellent in a suit — gave a spirited defense of strong language in hip-hop. “I’m like Stephen King: horror music is what I do,” he said. “If by some stroke of the pen, hip-hop was silenced, the issues would still be present in our communities. Drugs, violence and the criminal element were around long before hip-hop existed.”
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