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Green Day Songs Banned By Two Las Vegas Radio Stations After Billie Joe Armstrong Calls City ‘Worst S–thole in America’

Green Day songs have been banned by two Las Vegas Radio stations after singer Billie Joe Armstrong called the city the 'Worst S--thole in America.'

Green Day singer Billie Joe Armstrong knows his enemy, and at the band’s Sept. 20 hometown-adjacent show at Oracle Park in San Francisco he had no problem calling out the man he thinks is a real American idiot. For some context, Armstrong is from Oakland and has been a A’s supporter over the years (see below) and like a lot of East Bay residents, he’s a basket case about the latest major league team leaving his beloved home town. A few days after his Vegas rant, Armstrong posted a picture of himself as a six-year-old playing with a toy car in the sand while rocking an A’s hat.

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