UNDATED (WKRC) - One of the Rolling Stones' biggest hits is being shelved due to its lyrics that reference slavery, the iconic rock band confirmed to the Los Angeles Times.

The band is currently on their "No Filter" tour and have not performed the song "Brown Sugar" yet, which is usually a regular on their setlist. The Los Angeles Times asked Keith Richards and Mick Jagger if that was on purpose.

"You picked up on that, huh?" Richards responded when asked the question. "I don't know. I'm trying to figure out with the sisters quite where the beef is. Didn't they understand this was a song about the horrors of slavery? But they're trying to bury it."

The song was recorded in 1969. Some of the lyrics reference slavery:

"Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields

Sold in the market down in New Orleans

Scarred old slaver knows he's doing alright

Hear him whip the women just around midnight

Brown sugar, how come you taste so good?"

Richards and Jagger did both express a desire to one day bring the song back into the setlist. The last time it was performed publically was in August 2019 at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, Florida, according to People.com.

"At the moment I don't want to get into conflicts with all of this s---," Richards explained. "But I'm hoping that we'll be able to resurrect the babe in her glory somewhere along the track."

"We've played 'Brown Sugar' every night since 1970, so sometimes you think, we'll take that one out for now and see how it goes," Jagger told the LA Times. "We might put it back in."