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Inspiration: Parental Advisory Uplifting Content

Parents be advised that your child will be uplifted by the content they are about to consume. This is more than a mantra, its a movement. Far too long have young minds been warped by lyrics that degrade women and perpetuate violence. The original Parental Advisory label (PAL) was a warning label introduced by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in 1985. After heated debate in a US senate committee between RIAA and notable musicians Frank Zappa, John Denver and Dee Snider centered around censorship the warning label was born. 

In 1990, the now standard black-and-white warning label design reading "Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics" was introduced and was to be placed on the bottom right-hand section of a given product. The first album to bear the "black and white" Parental Advisory label was the 1990 release of Banned in the U.S.A. by the rap group 2 Live Crew.[3] By May 1992, approximately 225 records had been marked with the warning.[4] In response to later hearings in the following years, it was reworded as "Parental Advisory: Explicit Content" in 1996.

The Parental Advisory Uplifting content is a PSA to gifted artists who are caught up in the rat race of making content that sells all while making content that is detrimental to the psyche of its listeners. 

“Now I’m not dissin’ rap 

Cuz dawg its in me 

And its not every song that makes my ears bleed

I’m calling out dudes who spit to make cheese 

By glorifying a life that ends in two C’s

Caskets and cages , the young ones are craving 

Someone to look up to. . . “

Parental advisory , Story of my life , Jahai

I hope that this new movement in uplifting content will advise parents that their children ears are in good hands and that after they listen to anything that carries this label they will be inspired to achieve everything that they are designed to achieve!