MTV Bans "Suicide" from Particular Video

[The Big PINK One♥]

As rapper/singer Sean Kingston enters his third week at the top of Billboard's Singles Charts with his hit, "Beautiful Girls," MTV's popular video countdown show, "TRL," continues to edit out the word "suicidal" from the song's chorus, even as many radio stations and networks, including BET, air the original version.

"Because we know [suicide] is an issue that so many members of our audience struggle with, we do not take any references to suicide lightly," a spokeswoman for MTV explained to the New York's Daily News.

"With regards to Sean Kingston's 'Beautiful Girls,' we knew that the label had a version substituting 'suicidal' with 'in denial' so we gave them the option of submitting the version with 'in denial'," the rep continued.

The chorus for "Beautiful Girls," reads "You're way too beautiful girl. That's why it'll never work. You'll have me suicidal, suicidal. When you say it's over."

Oddly enough the Jamaican-American artist is known for shying away from using controversial lyrics.

"I feel like with what's going on in hip-hop, people don't need to be cursing -- especially coming from a 17-year-old," Kingston told SOHH in a recent interview. "I don't need to curse in my music to make it any better. I'm trying to touch every fan base, and make everyone connect with me as an artist, I want people to know this artist is real, he writes all his own stuff, he does really good music, he doesn't have no negative stuff about him."

"Beautiful Girls" is the lead single from Kingston's self-titled debut CD, currently in stores now.

[angie5]

wow!!! they are make tooo much of a deal about this

[The Big PINK One♥]

well when you think about it, it makes sense. But at the same time him using the word suicidal is merely a figure of speech. However, there are people out there who would commit suicide over a boyfriend/girlfriend calling the relationship off. I remember my neighbor telling me about some girl jumping from a 9th floor window in the building across from my old one because her boyfriend dumped her. Then a few years later, her older sister did the same thing. So things like this happen. But I dont think that music artists nor television networks should have to censor or take any type of responsibility for someone elses crazy actions.