Hip-hop moguls have a long tradition of multitasking: Over the years, rappers have doubled as actors, restaurateurs, clothing designers, videographers, and snack promoters. But local rapper Imani the Misfit is pretty sure he's charting new territory, as far as side-projects go: He bills himself as “Maryland’s First Bisexual Porn Star Rapper.”

Sure, there are bisexual rappers—Nicki Minaj comes to mind. There are porn star rappers—porn performer Pinky recently entered the rap game. There could even be another bisexual porn star rapper somewhere out there. But Imani thinks he's the first to accomplish the feat in the state of Maryland. "It's basically a title I've never heard anyone claim before," Imani says. "I don't know if I am the world’s first, but I wouldn’t doubt it." And even if he were, he'd still hold on to the local flavor. "I want people to know that I’m from Maryland," he says. "It’s just kind of a rapper’s thing to want to put your area on the map."

Of all of Imani's qualifications, the "rapper" part was the first to emerge. "I was a musician first," Imani says. Growing up in Maryland and then New Jersey, he learned drums, keyboard, and vocals in his church's gospel choir. He started rapping at age 13, but focused on playing keyboards in friends' go-go bands before he starting rapping in earnest in 2004. Last Friday, Imani released his latest single, "My Definition of a Drug," on Amazon and iTunes; he's still at work on his upcoming full-length effort, "The Gold Pill."

After coming out two years ago, Imani started thinking of himself as a "bisexual rapper," he says. "But then I realized that just saying 'bisexual rapper' didn’t fully describe what I do. I also pose for nude erotic art. And I think that the combination of me being a musician and being in porn, it adds to the sensation of it all. It's a unique combination."

The "porn star" part is still in development. Imani began posing nude within the past year—including shoots with local photographer Sean Dibble, for whom he's posed naked and dripping in blood. He's yet to get into the video market. "In Maryland, the porn industry is mostly guys starting up a porn company and looking for girls," says Imani. "I've had a few opportunities to do movies, but every time an opportunity comes up, something stops it from happening," he says. "I'm starting to wonder if there’s like some spiritual force trying to stop me from doing a movie."

There are more immediate forces attempting to stop Imani from speaking out about his sexuality. "Especially in hip-hop, that's something that you don’t say," says Imani. "I’ve heard rumors of people being on the down low, but they're not going to say it because in hip-hop, being bisexual is like the last thing that you want to be," he says.

Imani says he's received death threats over his sexual orientation. He's also received letters from fans thanking him for helping them come to terms with their sexuality.  "There is a fascination that some people have. I’m kind of one-of-a-kind. I say a lot of things that will alienate me, but those things also make me special in other people’s eyes. And a lot of people who are bisexual or gay will support me just [because I'm] open about it."

There's only one demographic he's not representing: "My age is something I don’t really like to talk about," he says.

D.C.-based rapper Wale, after dropping out of, then rejoining, D.C. Black Pride, provides his thoughts on homophobia: "It's one of those situations where like, it might have been hard to understand like ten years ago. But it's 2010 . . . There's gay people that are like heads of companies,you know just like functioning human beings, you know what I'm saying?"

SEXUAL EUPHEMISM: "Stanky Leg"

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DEFINING MOMENT: The video for GS Boys' "Stanky Legg," a single released in 2008, shows several men and women performing the titular dance. The lyrics detail how it's done:

When I hit the dance floor, you know I'm doin' the stanky leg.
Southside merengue, then you rub it cross your head.
You an [unintelligible] you can do it too.
Jack your feet up in the air and check your Myspace too.
Now you can lean wit it,
Now you can drop wit it.
You can switch to the other leg and you can stop wit it.

Or as Urban Dictionary explains, it's a "dance where you stick out your leg and rotate it around."

UNDERLYING MEANING: Oddly, the GS Boys' video does not feature any partners performing the stanky leg upon each other, as the colloquial understanding of the term refers to the transference of the scent of a woman's vagina onto the leg of another. As one Urban Dictionary contributor defines the term:

Once again the young ones are doing something that they do not know what the meaning is, in the past (80's) when a couple used to dance toghether and the female became aroused the male ended up with a stinky Leg or in some situations when that time of the month ended on the males pants we call that the same, so next time you decide to dance something like this get informed first...Good Dancing.

The sexual connotation didn't stop "doin' the stanky leg" from becoming a popular slumber party activity.

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Soulja Boy has also done the stanky leg.

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SEX EUPHEMISM: Sushi

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LITERALLY: According to Wikipedia, sushi is "cooked vinegar rice which is commonly topped with other ingredients, such as fish, or put into rolls."

UNDERLYING MEANING: Urban Dictionary floats several bizarre sexual interpretations of the term, from a threesome, to "rough sex," to "more than 1/4 cup of semen produced in one ejaculation." But the most widespread sexual connotation of "sushi" is surely "vagina."

DEFINING MOMENT: The vaginal sushi reference most recently popped up in Young Money's "Bedrock," in which Drake announces, "I Love your sushi rolls / hotter then Wasabi." The term has not always been employed in a sexual context, however. In 2006's "Killa Cam," Cam'ron uses "sushi" to play off the idea of "sleeping with the fishes": "Ass cap, put em in the river / I'm the sushi king / And I'ma keep ya fresh / Let the fish eat ya flesh."

Perhaps the most overtly sexual use of "sushi" came in Funkdoobiest's 1995 song, "Pussy Ain't Shit" (above). While Young Money's "BedRock" attempts to takes a softer, less explicit approach to the sushi roll, Funkdoobiest's use of "sushi" clearly situates the term in a violent and denigrating sexual context. In a song dedicated to why female genitalia, and by extension, women, "ain't shit," Funkdoobiest drops several lines comparing women to consumable (and therefore disposable) objects. "Pussy ain't shit, give it to me in a frying pan," the track insists, before listing off the menu: "brothas in prison doing time for the coochie / the tuna, the shrimp, the snatch, and the sushi."

Despite Young Money's attempts to convert "sushi" into a sweeter sexual euphemism, the term will perhaps never recover from Funkdoobiest's more explicit interpretation.

Usher's latest single, "Lil' Freak," is an ode to arranging a ménage à trois. Helping to schedule the girl-on-boy-on-girl arrangement is hip-hop artist Nicki Minaj. In the song, Usher informs Minaj of a prerequisite to sleeping with him: "You go get some girls, bring them to me." She does.

This is not the first track to employ Minaj as threesome facilitator to the stars. In "Girls Kissing Girls," a track off Minaj's mixtape, Minaj aids Gucci Mane's request for participation in the song's titular activity. And in each song, Minaj readily indulges the man's sexual interest. From Minaj's contribution to "Lil' Freak":

Excuse me lil mama, but you could say I'm on duty
I'm lookin' for a cutie with a big old ghetto booty
I really like your kitty cat and if you let me touch her
I know you're not a bluffer, I'll take you to go see Usher

And from Minaj's verse in "Girls Kissing Girls":

Puh puh pop a beer, I'm a need some honey
Chew it like a gummy, stupid juicy oozy runny
Listen Gucci mane I got what u need
Keisha and Alisha and a million packs of weed
Girls everywhere Gucci go and get the camera
White girls too ohh Julie Annie Amber

There's reason to believe that Minaj is just as into this type of action as Gucci Mane and Usher are. Natalie Stein, writing for Bitch Magazine, notes that Minaj's music has consistently reinforced the popular assumption that Minaj is "a rumored lesbian (or bisexual, depending on who you ask)"—but that Minaj herself has stopped short of officially coming out of the closet. In the hip-hop world, Minaj's sexuality has been employed to fulfill the lesbian fantasies of heterosexual guys, but hip-hop hasn't yet give Minaj the space to truly own her identity.

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As Nicki Escuerdo, who wrote on "Lil Freak" for feminist blog Heartless Doll, writes:

Who cares if the girl isn't into hooking up with other girls? If you want to hook up with Usher, he makes it clear that it's a requirement to bring another lady friend around. To prove not all women are opposed to Usher's message, the song features Young Money rapper Nicki Minaj, who conveniently happens to be bisexual (it's not a marketing ploy at all!) . . . Everybody should have the right to get their freak on and have threesomes if they want. But the way the Usher goes about getting two ladies in his bed, by using his celebrity to coerce girls to sleep with him, is sleazy.

But as Escuerdo goes on to note, the songs that situate Minaj's sexuality as a tool for heterosexual men also give Minaj some room to define herself. This is where things start to get interesting. In "Lil Freak," Minaj announces:

If i'm in yo city, I'm signin' them tig 'ol bitties
I'm plotting on how I can take Cassie away from Diddy
The girls want a Minaj yeah they wetter than the rain then
Usher buzz me in, everybody loves Raymond

I never thought I'd be commenting on the transgressive function of the phrase "tig 'ol bitties." Here, Minaj clues her listeners into the fact that her own sexual interests are hardly confined to pleasing Usher. In this verse, she's not looking to hook up with Cassie to help P. Diddy get off; she's looking to remove Diddy from the situation entirely. But after that little detour, Minaj brings the focus of her sexual interests back to Usher. At the moment the songs start to get gay, Minaj brings it back to a more acceptable sexual expression she converts her erotic energy to heterosexual fantasy.

"Girls Kissing Girls," interestingly, contains no such final caveat. Yes, the song gets its wide appeal by accessing the "Girls Gone Wild" version of faux-lesbianism, but it also refuses to end with heterosexual bliss. Though the beginning of the song has Gucci Man getting hot by observing Minaj's sexual relationships with women, in the end he loses the Minaj character to another girl: "Then I lost her number, never seen again / The best brain in the world, do her thing with a girl / But don't call her yo girl, or let her hang with yo girl."

In these songs, Minaj's interest in other women is quarantined to a specific context (the threesome) that allows men to retain control over Minaj's sexuality in public, even while Minaj winkingly suggests that these guys are hardly owning her in the bedroom. As Minaj gains more industry power as an independent artist, here's to hoping she'll be able to take lyrical control of her own sexuality—without the watchful eye of a big-named guy.

When I wrote my piece parsing the feminist and misogynist undertones in the works of Lil Wayne, I overlooked one verse from "We Like Her," Wayne's ode to wanting to "fuck every girl in the world":

This verse comes courtesy of Mack Maine, president of Weezy's Young Money Entertainment:

For free suites, I'd give Paris Hilton all-nighters
In about 3 years, holla at me Miley Cyrus
I don't discriminate, no not at all
Kit Kat a midget if that ass soft I break her off
I exchange V-Cards with the retards
And get behind the Christian like Dior

So . . . Mack Maine is interested in having sex with celebrity socialites, girls who will reach the age of consent sometime in the future, Christians, women affected by dwarfism (with soft asses), and virgins with developmental disabilities. But don't worry, he does not discriminate as to which female vessel he achieves sexual release in.

I've heard this song on the radio dozens of times, but I must have blocked this verse out in order to avoid that special combination of offensive terminology and sexual assault overtones. Last night, my boyfriend called to confirm that he had actually heard the line, "V-Cards with the retards," broadcast over the radio. He did. Hey, as long as it's not "no homo," it's okay by them.

When Mack Maine says he'll have sex with Paris Hilton in exchange for free hotel rooms, he is dreaming. When he says he will "exchange" V-cards—I doubt Mack Maine is still holding on to his, but you never know—with developmentally disabled virgins, he is actually frightening me. It's also one of the more pathetic attempts at swagger I've ever come across. But good for him, he made something rhyme.

Attention, Christian kids: If you like not having sex, not speaking the Lord's name in vain, and not being gay, then you'll love the newest trend in policing typical adolescent behaviors in the name of God. It's called the The Christian Side-Hug, and it's here to help the devout avoid the temptation of full frontal hugging. Don't worry—it's cool, because they made a "rap" song about it.

According to Stuff Christians Like, there's no "exact scripture reference" banning normal hugging. But the Side-Hug does significantly lower the "risk of two crotches touching," which has got to be in the Bible somewhere. Here's how you do it:

Instead of face to face, you go side to side, putting your arm around the person and your hip against their’s. Still having a hard time mastering it? Pretend you’re taking a photo and you’re both looking at the camera together. The side hug, or A frame as it is also called, is safe for the whole family, friendly and above all holy.

The Christian Side-Hug strikes me as almost skeezily chaste—I'd much rather have a brief normal embrace with a stranger than a hip-tap from a person who I know sexualizes even the most mundane forms of human contact. But the Side-Hug itself is slightly less offensive than the medium being used to promote it: An appropriated version of "rap music" performed by a bunch of white youth pastors who think that mixing in some  gang-ish hand signals, tying on a bandana, and securing some fake bling will bring the youth to God.

The Christian Side-Hug rap comes courtesy of the Encounter Generation Conference, an annual Christian youth gathering which hopes to "bring the power, authenticity, and relevance of Jesus Christ to their culture." I'm afraid that this potent combination of absurd chastity and mock hip-hop will be more likely to bring the power of a school-yard beat-down to these kids' faces.

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.

Rollerskating in a Cadillac.

Being a vampire.

Drowning.

Getting run over by a car while showering.

Pretending to like the Steelers.

Spanking.

Feeding Snoop noodles.

Feeding Snoop more noodles.

Watching Snoop finish eating the noodles.

Keeping hold of your drink while on roller-coaster (no seat belt).

Hanging out with this guy.

More traditional video girl activities.

First up: "A Milli," a track off Tha Carter III:

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Relevant Lyrics: "The Bible told us every girl was sour / Don't play in her garden and don't smell her flower / Call me Mr. Carter or Mr. Lawnmower"

Feminist: Weezy's lawnmower is here to destroy all those antiquated ideas about female sexuality.

Misogynist: A man's lawnmower chopping up a woman's flower is not exactly the most sex-positive imagery.

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"Mrs. Officer," a song about a sexy cop.

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Relevant Lyrics: "Doin a buck in the latest drop/ I got stopped by a lady cop/ She got me thinking I can date a cop/ Cause her uniform pants are so tight . . . And I know she the law, and she know I'm the boss / And she know I can hide above the law / And she know I'm raw, she know it from the street / And all she want me to do is fuck the police."

Feminist: He's attracted to women in positions of power!

Misogynist: . . . as long as their pants are tight, and he can neutralize their authority by pulling out his wang.

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"We Like Her," a song about wanting to fuck every girl in the world. Every single one!

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Relevant Lyrics: "Open up her legs then filet mignon that pussy / I'm a get in and on that pussy / If she let me in I'm a own that pussy / Go'n throw it back and bust it open like you 'posed to / Girl I got that dope dick / Now come here let me dope you / You gon' be a dope fiend / Your friends should call you dopey"

Feminist: Every woman is beautiful.

Misogynist: Just beautiful enough for Wayne to declare ownership of her genitals and describe their courtship in sexual assault terms.

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"Lollipop," a song about oral sex.

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Relevant Lyrics: "I get her on top / She drop it like it's hot / And when I'm at the bottom / She Hilary Rodham."

Feminist: He just name-checked Hilary Rodham. In a positive way! And without the Clinton, even!

Misogynist: I'm not sure that riding Weezy is exactly the type of women's liberation Hil is working for.

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"Prostitute Flange," a song about not caring if your lady previously turned tricks.

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Relevant Lyrics: I wouldn't care if you were prostitutin' / That you hit every man that you ever knew / See it wouldn't make a difference / If that was way before me and you girl.

Feminist: An anti-slut-shaming anthem: Her sexual history is not an issue, even if she had sex with every man she has ever met. That's pretty progressive!

Misogynist: Well, the history is unimportant as long as it's ancient—"way before me and you"—and as long as she's now only his forever: "Three letters: I do."

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"Project Bitch," a track from Lil Wayne's Hot Boys days.

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Relevant Lyrics: Wayne's contribution to this track is devoted to the ladies who " be puttin' they mouth on it / and they suck everything out of it / and they catch it and swallow it. . . . When I come through in a Rolls Royce / I leave them with no choice / but to hop up in it an just let me make they throat moist."

Feminist: Hmm.

Misogynist: Yeah.

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:

Arts editor Sarah Godfrey was similarly tripped up by the taco:

After listening a few times, I'm thinking Gucci has mixed his metaphors a bit here. Although the taco thing and the sleeping with a sting ray thing seem like sex euphemisms, I'm pretty sure the extra lamb thing is about money, and the wrap 'em like an egg roll and feed 'em to the octos lines are about hurting people. But maybe I just have a hard time understanding his country ass.

Arts editor Ted Scheinman suspects that "extra lamb" refers to the size of Mane's dick:

Line 1: possible Christ ref. Also, isn't this, like, the weirdest endowment boast ever? Shoulda made it a half-smoke!

Line 3: I prefer to read this line as "meat up out the taco." Slightly racier. Though, let's be frank, the mixed-food metaphors are starting to make me nauseous

Line 4: Do octopi go for ethnic food?

Line 7: OK, Mr. Mane has now officially jumped the shark into full-on erotic-aquatic imagery. Or I guess this is a threat, like sleeping with the fishes. Either way, Shawty better not fuck around.

Listings czar Mike Riggs thinks it's ALL about the taco. And don't call it a taco!

1.) Lamb meat is an imaginative substitute for "roast beef," which was likely the most popular slice-meat parallel to vagina pre-Gucci. It would be worldly, perhaps even sophisticated, if comparisons to deli stuffs weren't pejorative.

2.) I hate taco references, thanks to the scene in "Me, Myself, and Irene" in which Jim Carrey commandeers the PA at a grocery store to harangue a woman who's buying Vagisil for her "cheesy taco."

3.) Then again, the "good plate" sounds, well, good! Like it's all tasty down there! And let's face it, the vagina is a tasty place, so it might as well be a tasty plate.

4.) I don't know about that whole stingray/egg roll/octo thing, except that octopus reminds me of Octopussy, the female lead from the same-titled 1983 James Bond movie, starring seafood connoisseur Roger Moore.

In closing, rappers can and should do better by the vagina. It's what they seem to live for, and yet they talk about it in terms befitting a so-so food cart. Jesus.

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."

"'Make it Rain" is not a sexual euphemism," wrote Hocus Focus. No, no—it's just a stripping euphemism. The manufactured wetness, some argue, is nothing more than the innocent pasttime of "showering" strippers with cash—and certainly has nothing to do with semen.

Finally, I've found the missing link that will prove "make it rain" is as much about genital-fluid showers as it is lucrative pole-dancing: "Wetter," the hit summer single by Twista (and featuring Erika Shevon).

Follow the "Wetter" video along with me, and watch how "make it rain" transforms from its (still pretty sleazy!) cash-money context and into its (definitively sleazy!) cum-shower meaning.

First, "making it rain" can be interpreted as throwing cash:

0:15 — Thunderstorm sound effects
0:24 — Shevon asks Twista to come "make it rain" on her
0:25 — Twista mines "making it rain" with his fingers
1:09 — Twista informs Shevon that "when it come to makin' it rain," Twista could "get it wet"
1:14 — Twista tells Shevon that he will be her "weatherman"
1:18 — Twista hints that he sees "rain in the forecast"
1:25 — Twista details how much cash he's got (whew).
1:36 — Shevon again asks Twista to "come and make it rain down on" her
1:52 — and again.

But then, Twista begins to deviate from the cash-money context:

2:18 — Twista asks Shevon if she "want[s] me to get it wet in other ways."
2:29 — Twista clarifies that this time when he "makes it rain," he "ain't stoppin 'til you wet up the covers."
2:30 — But why, Twista? "Because I gotta keep on fuckin 'til I see a lot of white stuff."

Oh, God, he's talking about semen!:

2:49 — Twista creepily mines "making it rain" over Shevon's body.
3:34 — Buhhhhhh, again with the thunderstorm effects!

But no, "make it rain" is not a sexual euphemism. It's far too explicit to qualify as one of those.

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"

DEFINING MOMENT: Lil' Boosie’s “Wipe Me Down"

UNDERLYING MEANING: There's no true consensus on what the fuck "wipe me down" actually means. But in the tradition of Lil' Wayne's "Walk It Off," Boosie's "Wipe Me Down" carries both sexual and non-sexual connotations. Most innocently, the phrase implies that one is "clean," "fresh," or otherwise "fly." In entreating another to "wipe me down"—as one would wipe down a newly washed car in the final stage of cleaning—the speaker indicates that she has reached the pinnacle of freshness.

The alternate meanings of "wipe me down" concern various acts associated with blow jobs: "to suck a man or boys dick or prick," suggests one Urban Dictionary user. Others consider a wiping down oral sex by proxy: "to give a guy a handjob by licking your hands and 'wiping' him down." Still others present a more ambiguous, but clearly sexual meaning: "To be used when things go extremely well with someone or something, for example, with someone of romantic interest. To wipe him or her down is a very good time indeed."

SHELF LIFE: Will never make it through the winter. Song kinda sucks, too.

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.

"Chocolate Factory"

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UNDERLYING MEANING: Butt. "1. A process inside the anus which produces shit as we know it. 2.The name of R. Kelly's new album. Coincidence? I think not."

R. KELLY USAGE: R. Kelly's lady. (Seriously, dude?) "candy carmel coated, taf-fies, chocolate covered strawberries, love so sweet / you're my chocolate factory, gum drops / mixed with chocolate, milk bars, there's so much variety / love so sweet, you're / my chocolate factory."

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"Down Low"

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UNDERLYING MEANING: Secret homosexual liaisons. "when black males try to remain straight by having sex with other men then go home and sleep with their wives."

R. KELLY USAGE: Secret heterosexual liaisons with a woman who already has a man. "Secret lovers is what you wanna be / While making love to him girl you're silently calling on me."

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"Snake"

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UNDERLYING MEANING: Slang for male genitalia. "Penis."

R. KELLY USAGE: The way a woman moves her body. When this song declares, "love the way you put that thing on me no doubt," R. Kelly insists he's referring to the way "you move your body like a snake." And not the other thing.

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"The Package"

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UNDERLYING MEANING: A dude's junk. "Male genitalia (penis and scrotum together), often associated with large size." R. Kelly has invoked this usage before, in "Make Me Love Her."

R. KELLY USAGE: "The Package," in epic R. Kelly hip-hopera "Trapped in the Closet," is a mysterious threat to group of people linked through a chain of casual sexual encounters. It's probably HIV, but we can't be sure—until R. Kelly comes out with more episodes, the series ends on a cliffhanger. Urban Dictionary confirms that "package" also means "AIDS—derived from prison slang: the complete package." Knowing R. Kelly, the "Package" will turn out to be something completely different.

10. "Lollipop"

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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"

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9. "Ridin' My Pony"

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DEFINING MOMENT: Ginuwine's "My Pony"

UNDERLYING MEANING: Ginuwine's pony, obviously, is his cock. One commenter commends Ginuwine for invoking a diminuitive horse as opposed to a more sizeable stallion; I'm just impressed he manages to carry the analogy throughout the song. His saddle is waiting, ladies.

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8. "The Nappy Dug Out"

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DEFINING MOMENT: Ice Cube's "Givin Up the Nappy Dug Out"

UNDERLYING MEANING: All this means is vagina, but points for originality.

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7. "Milkshake"

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DEFINING MOMENT: Kelis' "Milkshake"

UNDERLYING MEANING: I always assumed "milkshake" stood for "blowjob." In the context of the song, that interpretation would have Kelis performing mass outdoor yard blowjobs for all the boys. Kelis had this to say about the true meaning of the frothy drink: "Milkshake is just that thing that makes a woman stand out from everyone else. It's a thing that makes you sensual and warm and maternal. It could be about breasts but I don't have huge tits so you gotta work with what you got."

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6. "Skeet"

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DEFINING MOMENT: Lil' John's "Get Low"

UNDERLYING MEANING: Ejaculating; "To shoot your man juice up on ur bitch."

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5. "Make it Rain"

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DEFINING MOMENT: Fat Joe's "Make It Rain"

UNDERLYING MEANING: Urban Dictionary identifies two levels of euphemism in this rap standard: "In strip clubs, it is when you throw stacks of money all over women (this is the "edited" definition)"; "When a man ejaculates all over a woman (this is the "explicit" definition)."

SEE ALSO: Lil' Wayne's "Rain Man (Strip Club Anthem)"

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4. "Superman That Ho"

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DEFINING MOMENT: Soulja Boy's "Crank That (Soulja Boy)"

UNDERLYING MEANING: Is it not intuitive? "When you cum on a girls back and then stick the sheets to her, so when she wakes up in the morning she has a cape."

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3. "Wild Thing"

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DEFINING MOMENT: Tone Loc's "Wild Thing"

UNDERLYING MEANING: Dropped in 1989, this song is one of the original examples of hip-hop sex euphemism. Now, "doin' the wild thing" is so intimately associated with having sex that it's hard to believe it was once ambiguous.

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2. "O.P.P."

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DEFINING MOMENT: Naughty By Nature's "O.P.P."

UNDERLYING MEANING: "Other People's Property," generally. Throughout the song, "O.P.P." is made to signify both "Other People's Penis" and "Other People's Pussy." According to Wikipedia, "when the song asks the listener if they're 'Down with O.P.P.,' it is asking the listener if he/she is willing to have sexual relations with a person who is known to already have a significant other." The enthusiastic call-and-response that generally accompanies this song suggests that we're all a bunch of cheaters. Or we have no fucking idea what Naughty by Nature is talking about.

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1. "Doin' It"

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DEFINING MOMENT: LL Cool J's "Doin' It"

UNDERLYING MEANING: Sex.

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.

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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."