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Published on 06/08/2025Trend Spotting / Early Adopter Signals

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Origin Reddit Post

r/music

Radio is censoring out P. Diddy mentions

Posted by u/StumblinThroughLife06/08/2025
Tik Tok by Kesha played on the radio today and I went to sing along as anyone would but then I heard “Wake up in the morning… *silence*… Grab my glasses, I’m out the door, I’m gonna hit this

Top Comments

u/PecansNPies
Kesha officially changed the lyric to "fuck P Diddy" and removed all original versions so the radio station probably just found it most fitting to silence the whole line since they can't play
u/exmojo
Probably unpopular but I'm always anti censorship. By erasing mistakes, language, images, music, etc from the past, it only ends up whitewashing the reason why it's bad, and future generati
u/StumblinThroughLife
Yeah good on them. If I was a dj I don’t think it would even occur to me to find those references.
u/Katie_or_something
Kesha was a victim of a LOT of shit. I don't think she was in the "in" club
u/Sinomon
she's been saying "fuck p diddy" in concerts
u/hauntedhockey
She phrases it as “Wake up in the morning like, ‘fuck p diddy’”
u/TheFinnesseEagle
More like remove him from the whole album. Every time he edit his voice on a song, he was basically stealing money from Biggie while also dropping the quality of the songs. Shit was not neede
u/MyNameIsRay
"Wake up in the morning to fuck P Diddy" seems a whole lot worse than "feeling".
u/a_talking_face
That one is fairly obvious though since it's the first line of the song.
u/Malcolm_Morin
She did plan a re-release of the song where it instead says "Wake up in the morning like "Fuck P Diddy"". She already sings it live, so a studio version is probably soon if not out already.
u/BurntRussian
After 9/11 a lot of songs got placed on a "no-play" list. It wasn't any legal requirement, but a lot of stations adopted it. Rock the Kasbah was one of them... because of Muslim concepts bei
u/PecansNPies
Kesha officially changed the lyric to "fuck P Diddy" and removed all original versions so the radio station probably just found it most fitting to silence the whole line since they can't play
u/Sethithy
“A milli” might fit better
u/Katie_or_something
Kesha was a victim of a LOT of shit. I don't think she was in the "in" club
u/exmojo
I have a box set of Looney Tunes DVD's. At the beginning of each DVD, [Whoopi Goldberg suddenly appears](https://youtu.be/dGzgsJEUgIo?si=pq3AmtMYYCSj6lx4) and explains that some of the carto
u/jhow87
Ke$ha should instead sing “wake up in the morning feeling like tree fiddy”
u/HustlinInTheHall
Reminds me of biggie having "blow up like the world trade" censored despite not being banned words
u/bigmentalross
Wish the radio would censor songs by adding the word 'fuck'. Cowards!
u/Raiju02
Awww, I went to listen to this new lyric but it’s still just the old one…
u/dontpostpnw
Cake By the Ocean is next
u/hippiejo
Where are you even getting that from? She did not remove all original versions, the lyric is still there on Spotify, YouTube, and Apple Music. She’s changed the lyric in live performances but
u/OrdrSxtySx
It would have to. It's a master recording. Anything else would be a re-recording, and I'm not even sure she can, as at one point Dr. Luke owned her publishing, I believe. I can't find a clear
u/Wazootyman13
I think Kesha is doing this for a couple reasons. There's the obvious P. Diddy is a piece of shit aspect, but there's also the underlying Dr. Luke is a piece of shit aspect. She knows she c
u/NatureTrailToHell3D
She’s waking up feeling great, like she’s rich. >Wake up in the morning >feeling like a million
u/exmojo
Probably unpopular but I'm always anti censorship. By erasing mistakes, language, images, music, etc from the past, it only ends up whitewashing the reason why it's bad, and future generati
u/BennySkateboard
So she’s advising to wake up in the morning and fuck p Diddy?
u/Chevross
When I'm singing along to this in the car, I just change the lyrics to: "Wake up in the morning feeling like Bruce Campbell."
u/PeterPunksNip
Good news !
u/anastasiabeverhausen
“Feelin’ like the Gritty” ![gif](giphy|521HmJr2xRD8xcrBWg|downsized)
u/dontpostpnw
Cake By the Ocean is next
u/papercut15
I just seen the lyrics. Never knew they said that. That is wild lmao
u/OrdrSxtySx
It would have to. It's a master recording. Anything else would be a re-recording, and I'm not even sure she can, as at one point Dr. Luke owned her publishing, I believe. I can't find a clear
u/overfiend1976
Oh no. Anyway.
u/StumblinThroughLife
Yeah good on them. If I was a dj I don’t think it would even occur to me to find those references.
u/StumblinThroughLife
Yeah (p diddy is a bad example) but overall this has become an issue for me in digital media and is why I’ve been getting back into physical copies and owning instead of subscribing. Like I h
u/_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_
It was about then I noticed that the messy pop princess was actually a 30-foot crustacean from the paleozoic era.
u/hippiejo
Where are you even getting that from? She did not remove all original versions, the lyric is still there on Spotify, YouTube, and Apple Music. She’s changed the lyric in live performances but
u/metalguy91
![gif](giphy|J8FZIm9VoBU6Q)
u/metalguy91
![gif](giphy|J8FZIm9VoBU6Q)
u/TheSleepingNinja
Hit the griddy
u/popeter45
Wonder what they could splice in as a replacement?
u/DinkandDrunk
She changed it to “wake up in the morning like fuck p Diddy”
u/StumblinThroughLife
“Not looking real pretty”? “Feeling kind of sh*tty”? Knowing what we know now “feeling like p diddy” is kinda wild. Like everyone secretly knew.
u/MyNameIsRay
"Wake up in the morning to fuck P Diddy" seems a whole lot worse than "feeling".
u/TheyOllyOmar
Please do this with juicy by notorious BI. It’ll make the song x10 better. And fuck P diddy 
u/redlion351
"I need about tree-fiddy."
u/StumblinThroughLife
“Not looking real pretty”? “Feeling kind of sh*tty”? Knowing what we know now “feeling like p diddy” is kinda wild. Like everyone secretly knew.
u/popeter45
Wonder what they could splice in as a replacement?
u/DinkandDrunk
She changed it to “wake up in the morning like fuck p Diddy”
u/TheSleepingNinja
Hit the griddy

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