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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Mike Wise wants the Pacers to turn that racket off\u00A0and turn up\u00A0the Dave Clark Five.\u00A0(h/t to @mdotbrown)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mike Wise is an established sportswriter, winner of multiple awards for feature writing and considered one of the nation's top columnists by the Associated Press Sports Editors. But he is not a fan of the\u00A0rap music\u00A0that blared from the visiting Pacers' locker room before\u00A0their Game 2 bout with the Wizards.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pacers' pre-game locker room is pounding gangsta rap with Tiger and the Game. Apparently the n-bomb debate is not happening in Indiana.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2014 Mike Wise (@MikeWiseguy) May 7, 2014&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Oh, my bad, dawgs. It's TYGA and The Game. And it's straight-up filthy, like where some guys on the team look uncomfortable listening. \u2014 Mike Wise (@MikeWiseguy) May 7, 2014&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;B--ch this, H- that. Nbombs. If I was Adam Silver, I would take a hard look at locker room music as part of a mutually respectful league.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2014 Mike Wise (@MikeWiseguy) May 7, 2014&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Oof. For those lucky enough to avoid 2012's endless loop of \"Rack City,\"\u00A0this is Tyga\u00A0(Wise should stick with \"Tiger\"), whose other notable\u00A0ballads include \"Faded\" and \"Make It Nasty.\" We assume the song Wise heard from the locker room was \"Switch Lanes,\" a music video that features Lamborghinis speeding with their doors open, Tyga wearing a red \"187\" hat, and The Game donning what appears to be a leather executioner's mask, perhaps to conceal his face tattoo or his liver spots. Watch the video or listen to the lyrics and there is, as Wise points out, some pretty noxious stuff here. And the crude, unimaginative lyrics aren't even redeemed by a decent\u00A0beat. I'll agree with Mike about this much: This song, like most of Tyga's work, is awful.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The problem is &lt;em&gt;how&lt;/em&gt; Wise objects to all that hippity-hop before a playoff game. This isn't the case of a dad confiscating a Parental Advisory labeled\u00A0album from his adolescent son. Wise finds the music so odious that he wants the commissioner, Adam Silver\u00A0(who should be preparing for the Donald Sterling's impending storm of litigation) to do what? Ban objectionable music from the locker room? Have the players submit their iTunes collections to an NBA decency czar? SOMEBODY must determine what constitutes proper locker room music, right Mike? The Pacers players need to know what is good for them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The \"dawgs\" that Wise adds before his second tweet is ill-advised\u00A0and unfunny, and his\u00A0string of tweets leaves us with a\u00A0moralizing\u00A0old-world conclusion.\u00A0\"Senior columnist disapproves of pregame music, advocates for broad censorship.\"&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wise is right that the song is terrible and explicit. Yet it remains more concerning that he's patrolling a locker room of grown men and tweeting from his sportswriter pedestal.\nOr maybe he's just sick of\u00A0Tyga and reps\u00A0Lil' Durk\u00A0instead.&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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