If you wouldn’t play the track to your mother, then it probably needs an explicit tag.

It can be difficult to know whether your release is ‘explicit’ or not, so here’s some pointers that may help.

Explicit releases are anything that references the following:

• Drugs
• Inflammatory Lyrics
• Profanity
• Sexual References/Depictions
• Violence

If your release (including your artwork) contains any of the above, you will have to label the whole release as ‘explicit‘, however you can label each track as explicit or non-explicit.

Please note! You can only feature the ‘Parental Advisory’ label within your artwork if the release is explicit.

See our handy blog post to find out more about what explicit, non-explicit and clean mean.

Check out the full RouteNote Style Guide here!

If you have any further queries, feel free to get in touch with us!

See also:
How can I make changes to my release?
What does ‘non-explicit’ mean?
What does ‘cleaned version’ mean?