history. you won't hear it at their shows any time soon. the band has cut the song from their set list after pushback over references to slavery, sex, and drugs, and when asked if why they're not playing the song anymore was because of heightened cultural sensitivity, guitarist keith richards said this, quote, i'm trying to figure out what the sisters where the beef is didn't they understand this was a song about the horrors of slavery? but they're trying to bury it. that's keith richards saying this. joe, i'll come to you. >> yeah, if we don't learn from the past we're condemned to repeat it even if it's in a song like brown sugar keith richards, the guy who wrote the song, he would know what the meaning is. i thinkless. a lot of songs out there that we dance along to that we sing to and we have zero idea what the actual meaning is. to your point, brown sugar, according to richards, is about the horrors of slavery, heroin and rape.