 A further use of backmasking is to censor words and phrases deemed inappropriate on radio edits and " clean " album releases . For example , The Fugees ' clean version of the album The Score contains various backmasked profanities ; thus , when playing the album backwards , the censored words are clearly audible among the backward gibberish . When used with the word " shit " , this type of backmasking results in a sound similar to " ish " . As a result , " ish " became a euphemism for " shit " . 
