Turn down the obnoxiously loud music in the arenas and screen it for X-rated lyrics.

A column July 23 by Peter Applebome described a situation at a gas station in which he and his 9-year-old daughter were exposed to loud rap music with X-rated lyrics booming from the car of a black man wearing a prison guard uniform.

The Godfather of Soul has asked rap artists not to mix his songs with recordings containing X-rated lyrics, The Associated Press reported yesterday.

This is a brand of new school House music performers who loop often X-rated lyrics over House beats.

To the Editor: The answers last Sunday to Peter Applebome's request for responses to his July 23 column about his decision not to confront a black man about loud rap music with X-rated lyrics he was playing in the presence of Mr. Applebome's young daughter revealed much about the respondents.