Posts Tagged ‘rap’
The Life of a Snoop Dogg Video Vixen
As hip-hop booty model memoirist Karrine Steffans can surely tell you, life ain’t easy for a video vixen. She’s oversexed, underpaid, and generally under-appreciated for her services: basically, “sprawling undressed over a luxury car while a rapper is saying lewd things about her.” That goes doubly true for the dozens of ladies featured in “Gangsta Love,” the latest video from Snoop Dogg and Dream. Video girls have always been tasked with fulfilling a rapper’s every command—but these women are subjected to a particularly absurd laundry list of Snoop Dogg fantasies, from pretending he’s on True Blood to falling victim to a ladies’ shower hit-and-run. And when one woman can’t fulfill Snoop’s needs, he disposes of her—sometimes, over the side of a speed boat. The trials and tribulations of Snoop Dogg’s fantasy women, after the jump.
Lil Wayne: Feminist or Misogynist?
Lil Wayne has emerged as an interesting figure for feminist critique. As a rapper, Wayne peppers his lyrics with “pussy” and “no homo.” As a public figure, he has reluctantly helped to raise awareness about sexual assault against males and growing up with an absent father. And Wayne’s lyrics, as misogynist as they are, are also playful enough to usher in a few rare feminist hints. Let’s play the Weezy lyrics game: feminist or misogynist?
First up: “A Milli,” a track off Tha Carter III:
Rap Sex Euphemism: Gucci Mane’s Gyros, Egg Rolls, and Tacos
Cataloguing the sexual euphemisms of rap music is one of my favorite pastimes. So when a commenter requested that I parse Gucci Mane’s lyrics for hidden sexual undertones, I was happy to attempt to smoke out some hidden naughty bits in the rapper’s contribution to Young Problemz‘ “Boi” (Mane weighs in at the 2:55 mark).
Perhaps I am off my game. Because for the life of me, I can’t make out any clear sexual imagery in Mane’s lyrical feast of gyros, egg rolls, tacos, and sting rays:
Extra lamb like a gyro / Wrap ‘em like a egg roll
Beat up out the taco / Feed ‘em to the octos
Fully fully auto / Shawty bout that good plate
Fuck around next they be sleepin with a sting ray
While the taco reference inspires an obvious anatomical comparison, that octopus shit is beyond me. So I turned to CP‘’s resident art staff for help:
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Rap Sex Euphemism: “Make It Rain,” Explained
When I first compiled my top-ten sexual euphemisms from rap songs, a few listeners weren’t convinced that all these mainstream rap ditties had such dirty double-meanings. “This is terribly researched,” wrote commenter Hocus Focus, who took umbrage at my suggestion that there may be an underlying ejaculation message in the popular strip-club refrain “make it rain.”
Rap Sex Euphemism: “Wipe Me Down”
It’s hard out there for a rap star trying to come out with the next big sexual euphemism. Armed only with weather patterns (”make it rain”), child-friendly sweets (”lick it like a lollipop”) and whimsy (”superman that ho”), today’s hip-hop stars struggle to coin a sex term as eternal as LL Cool J’s ultimate rap sex euphemism: “doin’ it.” These are their stories.
RAP SEXUAL EUPHEMISM: “Wipe me down”
R. Kelly’s Weird Sexual Euphemisms, Explained
It’s hard not to think about sex when an R. Kelly jam comes on the radio. After all, Robert Sylvester Kelly is one of the foremost sex crooners of our time. But Kelly doesn’t just toss around sexual euphemisms in his songs—he mixes them up in ways that are often misleading, confusing, and maybe—just maybe—transgressive. Is R. Kelly unintentional invoking anal sex and phallic imagery in his heterosexual love songs, or is it all just clever wordplay? Take a tour of R. Kelly’s twisted sexual vocabulary, after the jump.
Top 10 Rap Sex Euphemisms
Talking about having sex is healthy. But with radio censors intent on bleeping out the most explicitly offensive material, what’s Lil’ Wayne to do when he wants to write an entire song about a woman performing oral sex on him? Invent a bizarre euphemisms for fun and profit. Below, the top ten euphemisms for sex made famous in rap songs.
10. “Lollipop”
DEFINING MOMENT: Lil’ Wayne’s “Lick it Like a Lollipop”
UNDERLYING MEANING: Sexual infantilization ahead. “It’s basically a cock. As in lick the lollipop. Refering to blowjobs. Lil Wayne made a song called Lollipop about this topic.”
SEE ALSO: 50 Cent’s “Candy Shop”
Asher Roth Bukkaki Video Corner
Via Bitch:
The video . . . features a host of bikini-clad women being covered with buckets of viscous white paint, most of which ends up on their faces.
. . . In the end, it’s not that Roth is any more misogynist than many other guys in hip-hop, and I think there’s more than a hint of racism in holding Roth to a higher standard than a lot of black or latino rappers. Still, Roth’s cluelessness is insufferable, and to see him sail to success using the novelty of his own suburban upbringing and pale skin tone — even in the face of lackluster flow and weak rhymes — is quite frustrating.
In other words, it’s not just the video that’s masturbatory.
In Stunning Turn of Events, I Totally Like Pro-Life Rap!
I was totally prepared to hate the result of the pro-life movement’s attempt to appeal to “the youth,” but Flipsyde’s “Happy Birthday” is just too good:
Lyrical sample:
I never tell a woman what to do with her body.
But if she don’t love children, then we can’t party.
I think about it every year, so I picked up a pen.
Happy birthday, I love you, whoever you would have been.
Umm, actually, that’s pretty awesome. Just block out the part where Flipsyde is all like, “paid for the murder before they even determined sex . . . sometimes I wonder as a fetus if you fought for your life,” and this empty-swing rap ballad is surprisingly listenable. Bonus: Flipsyde establishes street cred by admitting to “sippin’ on a beer.”
