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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Contrast this with his reaction to T-Pain’s cover of War Pigs

Edit: link to T-Pain’s live cover

Edit2: Alt Link

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It really is an awesome cover.

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Amusingly enough the Onion article mentions this.

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It’s The Hard Times. They put out good stuff too 😉

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Holy fuck, every member of that band truly understood the assignment. That guitarist and drummer though… that was amazing. Thank you for posting this, my day is better for having watched it.

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…damn. That was great.

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35-years ago, I never thought I would see a popular rapper and his band belt out such a faithful rendition. And a crowd of black people rolling with it! Wild times!

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Hey you just cost me an hour

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Worth. Every. Second.

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His cover of Tennessee Whiskey is worth the price of admission. The rest is just gravy

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That was sick, thanks.

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Saw T-pain live once unexpectedly, absolutely awesome dude and performer.

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Holy shit that blew me away. Thanks for sharing!

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Nice, thanks for sharing the cover itself! It really is a delight

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@j_roby thanks that whole thing is great.

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You got an alt link?

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My favorite solo is always the “aight I’m just gonna leave you to it, bye” solo lmao

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