I recently purchased both the R-rated and NC-17 versions of the film through ebay and neither contain Schoolly D's "Signifying Rapper". Their both the Live Home Video released versions and both have copyrights from 1993, before the ensuing lawsuit over the usage of the song. I thought that the NC-17 version was supposed to have the song included, can anyone help me out on this?
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I bought the R-Rated VHS from Live Home Video and it also does not contain the Schooly D soundtrack. I wound assume they are not as easy to find as all that. I hear all laserdisc releases contain the original soundtrack with Schooly D in all its glory, so I think I'm gonna buy a cheap used laserdisc player on eBay.
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I actually received a worked NC-17 rated copy that contains "Signifying Rapper" a couple of weeks back. I'm not sure if the other copy was a bootleg or not, but I could immediately tell this was authentic before even viewing the film because the vhs has........previews!!! The other copy I have contains no previews before the film, which is quite suspicious for a film that old.
shareI'm guessing the original rental version had the song. Keep in mind that in the glory days of VHS, they would release movies on VHS for about $100 to video rental stores when they first debuted on video. It wouldn't be until about two or three months down the road (roughly when they debuted on HBO or another premium channel) that the company would release a cheaper retail copy often without previews to major retailers.
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I've got the original VHS and yes it has the SD song.
It really sucks that it's been deleted---I watched it recently on IFC and a significant amount of power has been erased along with that song.
SD's the s**t.
there was a composite version available on a torrent site a couple of years back, where the original audio (taken from a vhs dupe of the laserdisk) was reinstated/resynched over a dvd rip of the movie (the end credits were also replaced with those from the LD version, so as to correctly credit the proper music).
search for it... it's out there ;)
probably the only place.
shareCould it also be the fact that, coincidentally, the reason why the song was not featured on the 1993 versions of the movie, prior to the Led Zeppelin law suit in 1994, was that it was removed by censors on grounds of its shock value, which may have disturbed audiences especially in that hospital scene?
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