Some idiotic, thoroughly moronic publisher gave in to idiotic, thoroughly moronic busybody censors and republished Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer replacing the historically appropriate (and clearly condemned by the author, if you, say, bother to read the damn books…) usage of the N-word by the word “slave.” To point out in a kind of hamfisted way where this idiotic, thoroughly moronic move could lead in a censorship slippery-slope, here are the lyrics to ODB's amazing “Nigga Please” (Dirty, we still miss you, by the way) with all the N-words replaced by the word “slave.” Shame on a slave who tries to run game on a slave:

“Slave Please”

[ODB]

I ain't no slave

My words can't be held against me

I'm not caught up in your law

All music must obey me

All pain must obey me

I cripple my enemies

Got that careful vocabulary

I can talk my way up out of anything

Nobody's words can go against me

I'm stingy, I want all that energy

Osirus, the best slave in the place to be

I two hundred hot degree

Burning ya til you faint y'all

Y'all slaves shooting blanks y'all

I'm fucking my vest, drive an armored tank y'all

I dead slaves like a dog buries a bone

You could never set me up I raise the pain volume

Nominate me, as presidential MC

My career so intelligent unique physique

A slave please!

[ODB and RZA]

[Chorus]

You could never fuck with the dog,

A slave please!

Slave I will bury ya bone

A slave please!

I'm the one who burned ya home

A slave please!

Watch your shit fall like Rome

I'm immune to all viruses

I get the cocaine it cleans out my sinuses

Just for slinging *nuh* I get a quarter a mil

I'll have it raining ice drops the size of automobiles

Kill all the government microchips in my body

I'm the paranoid slave at your party

I kill all my enemies at birth!

Shut the fuck up!

Bitch and let my slide my hands up your skirt

Slave please!

[Chorus]

Slave please! (You could never fuck with the dog) [x5]

[RZA]

Straight up! ODB type shit

Y'all watch out for the Abbott and Crazy Monk

Coming soon

Splashed y'all with the organic hip-hop spazola type

Naw mean

Straight up!

For born in on

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