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A Hierarchy of Date-Rape Jams


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I’ve been writing a lot about date rape in popular culture lately, particularly in music. Most of my treatment has involved parsing the lyrics of popular songs with rape-scenario undertones: Asher Roth’s soft indictment of college date rape; A Tribe Called Quest’s anti-date rape, menstruation-joke opus; Slick Rick’s anal-themed rape song. But do the songs at least sound good? And does that make them worse?

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Top Five Date Rape Anthems

Date rape has been getting some pretty heavy rotation on the airwaves since Jamie Foxx’s latest single, “Blame It (On the Alcohol),” dropped. The song details Foxx’s pursuit of an increasingly drunk lady in da club, and features T. Pain, who chimes in on his vocoder: “Couple more shots you open up like a book.” If you want to know what it’s like to be double-date-raped by a movie star and a dude who speaks only through a vocoder, this song is for you.

But Foxx and Pain aren’t the first to make raping someone you know into record gold. Below, five of the most notable date rape anthems in recording history.

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Date Rape Anthem: Jamie Foxx’s “Blame It (On the Alcohol),” in which Foxx attempts to fuck a woman who “says she usually don’t” but that he knows is “frontin” because “she don’t wanna seem like she’s easy.” (But she is). Foxx knows she’s ready to admit she wants it when “she spilled some drink on me / And now I’m knowin’ she tipsy.” My neighbor has this song as her ringtone.

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