Posts Tagged ‘slick rick’

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. [...]

Date Rape Anthem: Slick Rick’s “Adults Only”

Date Rape Anthem: Slick Rick's "Adults Only." This one came recommended by a friend: "I think listening to the Slick Rick song is more like actually getting date raped," he said. [Listen to the song here].
Relevant Lyrics:

Now my mouth start foamin
The lights dim were kissin and my hands start roamin in her drawers
GIRL: "stop!"
Knew [...]