LOS ANGELES — Legendary metal musician, and noted septuagenarian, Ozzy Osbourne broke new ground when he became the first old white man to complain about a rap song and actually be on the right side of history.

“This is the first time we’ve ever seen a person of Ozzy’s age, wealth status, and complexion complain about a rap song or artist and actually be correct. Especially when they say it in an all-caps Tweet,” said music scholar Aiden Lawrence

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    What the fuck did you just call The Prince of Darkness? What the fuck? Fuck you!

    “My husband was recording gold records while you were still wanking it to the cover of sports illustrated magazine.”

    –Sharon Osbourne.

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      I’m a 60yo white guy, and this comment hurts me. I used to be in your camp until the radio stations I typically listened to (rock, country, classical) in GTA San Andreas got old and I flipped on the hip-hop station just to get something different.

      I don’t know hip-hop like I know rock or country, but there is a lot of that music that gets five stars on my music server.

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        I’m 40 and I grew up listening to rap mostly and metal. I grew up in an era where, at least where I lived, there was this “I listen to everything but rap and country” attitude. There is really great music everywhere you look. It took me a while to look at country to realize what I was missing, though, so I guess I was a part of the problem.

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      Let’s get down to brass tacks: I probably couldn’t stand what you pass off as “music” either, but you don’t see me showing up at the circus, telling you what notes to play on the organ.

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      The subject being satirized in this article is hip hop/rap “criticism” that’s just thinly veiled racism/racist dog whistling. Not Ozzy Osbourne. They’re using a real news item about him in order to satirize racism because his reason for denying use of his song subverts the trope of the “old guy who hates rap for racist reasons.” Ozzy is not the butt of the joke here, but please, don’t let that get in the way of your righteous indignation and pearl clutching on behalf of Ozzy.

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    “At press time, Osbourne was contacted by phone for further comment but we couldn’t understand a word he said.”