DETROIT - The Rev. Al Sharpton has brought his campaign to clean up hip-hop lyrics to Motown, and organizers hope to collect thousands of bars of soap as symbols of the effort.

Sharpton and the Rev. Horace L. Sheffield III, pastor of New Galilee Missionary Baptist Church, talked about the campaign Saturday outside the Motown Historical Museum.

Sharpton said it made sense to promote the hip-hop campaign in Detroit because NAACP leaders plan to conduct a mock funeral for the "N" word during the group's July convention in the city.

"The 1960s were the Motown sound and James Brown," Sharpton said as he stood in front of the museum, which includes the former Motown Records studio. "But they did not call us the 'N' word and they did not degrade women."

The campaign began last month in New York City with Sharpton challenging the recording industry on denigrating lyrics. Organizers say they plan to soon roll out the effort in Los Angeles.

The bars of soap will be donated to shelters and halfway houses for women, organizers said.

Associated Press

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Oh yeah, here's an idea.
Discuss the message and not the messenger.


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The soap collection is kinda corny, but at least it's being donated to a good cause. I'm all for change in the rap world, shit is out of control

joe jackson is doing this already with his hip hop booth camp so i dont know why that guy gets his hands involved in this thing

motownlover said:

Go get 'em Al. Don't just clean it up, run the boring shit out of style.

What better place to do it than the historic Motown studios in Detroit where an entire generation of young black artists made history by writing/performing the songs that the whole world sang along with but without all of the trashy lyrics and imagery that is common place in todays pop music environment?