As singer Sean Kingston enters his third week at the top of Billboard's singles chart's with his hit, "Beautiful Girls," MTV's popular video countdown show, "TRL", continues to edit out the word "suicidal" from the song's chorus, even though a majority of radio stations and networks, including BET air the original version.
"Because we know suicide is an issue that so many members of our audience struggle with, we do not take any references to suicide lightly," a spokeswoman for MTV explained to the New York's Daily News.
"With regards to Sean Kingston's 'Beautiful Girls,' we knew that the label had a version substituting 'suicidal' with 'in denial' so we gave them the option of submitting the version with 'in denial'," the rep continued.
The chorus for "Beautiful Girls," reads "You're way too beautiful girl. That's why it'll never work. You'll have me suicidal, suicidal. When you say it's over."
Oddly enough the Jamiacan-American artist is known for shying away from using controversial lyrics.
"I feel like with what's going on in hip-hop, people don't need to be cursing - especially coming from a 17-year-old," Kingston told in a recent interview. "I don't need to curse in my music to make it any better. I'm trying to touch every fan base, and make everyone connect with me as an artist, I want people to know this artist is real, he writes all his own stuff, he does really good music, he doesn't have no negative stuff about him."
"Beautiful Girls" is the lead single from Kingston's self-titled debut CD, currently in stores now.