Kanye West censors himself

7:58 EST: In keeping with our earlier arisen theme of perfroming certain rap songs at these big SOCIALLY CONCIOUS CONCERTS - Make of this what you will: Kanye West is on stage in New York/New Jersey singing 'Gold Digger' - which N word or not is still an absolutlely great hip hop song, impeccably produced - but when it comes to the contentious part: "Now I ain't saying shes a Gold Digger - but she ain't messing with no broke - ". In this part he is just singing 'Broke ... broke" - saying broke twice, instead of the n-word. Not Earth friendly, I guess. The spectre of Tipper Gore.

UPDATE: I am wrong. Kanye West is not, technically, censoring himself. I have subsequently learned that this version of Gold Digger, is in fact the MTV version. Kanye West is performing the MTV version of his hit song Gold Digger. On this occasion, of the Live Earth. So its not the spectre of Tipper Gore at all. Its the spectre of MTV. Unless the spectre of Tipper Gore is actually, lurking somewhere behind the spectre of MTV.