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** Chuck D of [[Public Enemy]] fame as "Forthright MC" on Playback FM and Motherfunking George Clinton himself as "The Funktopus" on Bounce FM. There are no Parliament/Funkadelic tracks in the game, but Bounce FM features a melody of many songs by the P-Funk collective, and sometimes, in the outro to "Rebel Without A Pause" Chuck D says "now Public Enemy is a group I have always been behind!". The meta here is sickening.
** And Michael Bivins of New Edition and Bell Biv Devoe as the DJ of the new jack swing station CSR.
* [[Keep Circulating the Tapes]]:
** Following the infamous Hot Coffee sex scandal, the first edition was pulled out of circulation, with a recall being issued towards owners of the initial retail 1.0 release (not that fans actually bothered to have their copies sent back to R* though). Subsequent releases of the game are now patched to remove most if not all traces of the scene in question; they can however be downgraded to version 1.0 which is mandatory for any and all modifications to work.
** And for a time, Rockstar made the brilliant decision of delisting the classic RenderWare-powered releases of ''San Andreas'' and the earlier two installments to make way for the ''Definitive Edition'' remasters, leading to concerns about video game preservation and consumer choice. They later backed off as player backlash over the remasters' dubious quality became glaringly obvious in late 2021.
* [[Throw It In]]: The random plane crashes were a glitch Rockstar discovered during beta testing, due to a spawned plane's randomly set trajectory sometimes intersecting with the ground. They found the crashes so funny and appropriate for the comedic [[Crapsack World]] setting that they left the glitch alone.
* [[Troubled Production]]: A series of emails with Dan Houser revealed his insistence on getting the Hot Coffee minigame incorporated into ''San Andreas'', as detailed in a [https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-11-30-who-spilled-hot-coffee Eurogamer article]. Fellow Rockstar staff members warned Houser of the potential implications of adding explicit sexual content into the game, such as lost sales, limited marketing and being refused from having a console release (video game console manufacturers have made it a point not to license AO-rated video games on their devices, hence why otherwise AO-rated games were edited to secure a console release), to which Houser acquiesced and had the problematic scenes [[Dummied Out|disabled]] as removing them altogether could break the game, claiming that the minigame was deeply interwoven into the game's code. Feeling incensed and betrayed by the apparent injustice of the situation, Houser would then express his displeasure with the perceived double standards when it comes to sex in video games in an email, saying, "Can we confirm that these are the content changes that need to be made? As I mentioned to Terry [Donovan, then CEO of Rockstar Games], I was pretty shocked by the list. The cuts are everywhere. It doesn't feel like we are pushing any boundaries now. Why bother? I really, really do not want to change this stuff. It feels SO wrong at the behest of psychotic, mormon [sic], capitalist retailers."
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