Teh One Who Knocks
08-11-2020, 07:51 PM
Emma Kelly for Metro.co.uk
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There’s a pandemic causing worldwide deaths, heartbreak and uncertainty, an impending economic crisis on the horizon and a presidential election in less than 100 days that will define the next four years in the US.
But of course, the main cause for concern right now is two consenting adult women talking about being horny.
This week saw the eagerly anticipated collaboration between two of rap’s hottest talents, Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion, dropped along with its video – and if you still think of WAP as the browser on your old Nokia, you may be in for a startling wake-up call.
Cardi and Megan’s collab has resulted in all of us frantically lowering the volume every time someone enters the room, lest our mothers hear us chanting ‘bring a bucket and a mop for this wet ass p***y’, as we listen to their most explicit song yet.
From instantly meme-able lyrics to stunning visuals that demand all the MTV VMAs next year, social media went into meltdown over the song, praising it as the song of the lost summer. Others reckon it will result in all girls going to hell.
Instead of concentrating on the aforementioned slightly important events going on in the world right now, a number of Republican politicians have turned their attention to a song about banging.
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James P Bradley, a Republican running for a Congressional seat in California, tweeted that while he agreed with Cardi’s First Amendment right to rap about her vag, ‘Cardi B & Megan Thee Stallion are what happens when children are raised without God and without a strong father figure.
‘Their new “song” The #WAP (which i heard accidentally) made me want to pour holy water in my ears and I feel sorry for future girls if this is their role model!’
(Side note – ‘accidentally’, sure babes.)
And former Republican Congressional candidate DeAnna Lorraine called the song ‘depraved’, tweeting: ‘Cardi B & Megan Thee Stallion just set the entire female gender back by 100 years with their disgusting & vile “WAP” song.
‘If @iamcardib & @theestallion think that their vile #WAP song did anything to empower women they are completely wrong. No radio station should play that trash, censored or uncensored.’
Now, James and DeAnna are as entitled to their opinions on Cardi and Megan’s music. But their outrage just proves something we already know – that society hates sexual women, and particularly, sexually confident Black women.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsm4poTWjMs
Pretty much every second club song from a male artist features lyrics about indiscriminately banging women left, right and centre in great detail. Explicit lyrics and misogyny seem to be the acceptable norm. But the second a woman raps about her libido, the pearl-clutching begins.
Lil Kim’s groundbreaking debut album Hard Core was critically praised and is considered a classic, but was also the target of much hate due to its overtly sexual lyrics. While many saw the album as a sexual revolution for a woman in an industry dominated by men, others called it vulgar.
Her lyrical ability was doubted because of its content, her self-respect doubted too. Eight years on, she still had to defend women having a sex life, rapping on Christina Aguilera’s Can’t Hold Us Down: ‘If the guy have three girls then he’s the man… But if a girl do the same, she’s a whore.’
Everyone from Khia to Nicki Minaj has been hit with the same double standards – that they’re letting themselves down by being sexual in their lyrics, and need to be ‘better than that’.
Nearly two decades on, Cardi and Megan are still fighting the same fight for sexual Black women, carrying on the torch from Lil Kim (they even pay homage to the rapper in WAP, with her legendary squat pose for the Hard Core promo mirrored in the fountain at the start of the video).
Two women at the top of their game and with everybody’s eyes on them, they could choose to speak about anything in their music, and they have. They want to talk about wanting big mack trucks parked in their garages, and you know what? More power to them.
https://i.imgur.com/MuRG9lq.jpg
Particularly in the music industry, women have long been seen as sex objects, relegated to faceless T&A in videos, shaking it (a skill in itself, by the way, have you ever tried to twerk) alongside the man rapping triumphantly about ‘f***ing b***hes’ every night.
There’s never any outrage when these 10-a-penny videos drop. But God forbid a woman does the same thing but without a man’s gaze upon her, and she’s the depraved harlot that should be setting a better example for the kids. Women are allowed to be sex objects when men want them to, but not when they want to be themselves.
I mean, I’m not denying that WAP is filth. It is a tour de force of filth. Somehow, the censored version, which replaces the title with the phrase ‘wet and gushy’, is even more explicit. It is an eye-opening ode to nastiness, and it is a lot, and it is not for everyone, but you know what? That’s ok.
Nobody is obliged to listen to WAP if they don’t want to; thanks to our self-curated diets of Spotify and YouTube, it’s easily avoided. But just because you don’t like Taylor Swift, or Nickleback, or Cardi and Megan’s filth, doesn’t mean that it is bad – or in the case of the latter – morally wrong.
If you want to listen to deep, meaningful rap songs, they exist. If you want to listen to a raunch-fest with your girls in the club, that exists too.
Cardi and Megan have built their empires on being talented rappers who are also sexual beings, and they are killing it. They’re not only owning what makes others nervous, but opening up the stage to other powerhouses like Normani and Sukihana, who explained why being hypersexual in the public eye is not a flaw.
Speaking on Apple Music, the rapper said: ‘I feel like being sexual and s***… I don’t see nothing wrong with that. I’ve got three kids, and I got these kids from sucking and f***ing. Me being a “hoe”… honestly, I liberate a lot of hoes.’
Sure, not every female act is feminist, but Cardi and Megan owning their bodies and their horniness and their right to be explicit without a male gaze dictating it is a radical act, which the predictable outrage continues to prove is needed.
Knowing that they have power in their sexuality is all the self-respect Cardi and Megan need, and no outrage from the repressed can undermine their worth.
RBP
https://i.imgur.com/MaCLGKa.jpg
There’s a pandemic causing worldwide deaths, heartbreak and uncertainty, an impending economic crisis on the horizon and a presidential election in less than 100 days that will define the next four years in the US.
But of course, the main cause for concern right now is two consenting adult women talking about being horny.
This week saw the eagerly anticipated collaboration between two of rap’s hottest talents, Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion, dropped along with its video – and if you still think of WAP as the browser on your old Nokia, you may be in for a startling wake-up call.
Cardi and Megan’s collab has resulted in all of us frantically lowering the volume every time someone enters the room, lest our mothers hear us chanting ‘bring a bucket and a mop for this wet ass p***y’, as we listen to their most explicit song yet.
From instantly meme-able lyrics to stunning visuals that demand all the MTV VMAs next year, social media went into meltdown over the song, praising it as the song of the lost summer. Others reckon it will result in all girls going to hell.
Instead of concentrating on the aforementioned slightly important events going on in the world right now, a number of Republican politicians have turned their attention to a song about banging.
1291735105774522368
1291743062511812613
James P Bradley, a Republican running for a Congressional seat in California, tweeted that while he agreed with Cardi’s First Amendment right to rap about her vag, ‘Cardi B & Megan Thee Stallion are what happens when children are raised without God and without a strong father figure.
‘Their new “song” The #WAP (which i heard accidentally) made me want to pour holy water in my ears and I feel sorry for future girls if this is their role model!’
(Side note – ‘accidentally’, sure babes.)
And former Republican Congressional candidate DeAnna Lorraine called the song ‘depraved’, tweeting: ‘Cardi B & Megan Thee Stallion just set the entire female gender back by 100 years with their disgusting & vile “WAP” song.
‘If @iamcardib & @theestallion think that their vile #WAP song did anything to empower women they are completely wrong. No radio station should play that trash, censored or uncensored.’
Now, James and DeAnna are as entitled to their opinions on Cardi and Megan’s music. But their outrage just proves something we already know – that society hates sexual women, and particularly, sexually confident Black women.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsm4poTWjMs
Pretty much every second club song from a male artist features lyrics about indiscriminately banging women left, right and centre in great detail. Explicit lyrics and misogyny seem to be the acceptable norm. But the second a woman raps about her libido, the pearl-clutching begins.
Lil Kim’s groundbreaking debut album Hard Core was critically praised and is considered a classic, but was also the target of much hate due to its overtly sexual lyrics. While many saw the album as a sexual revolution for a woman in an industry dominated by men, others called it vulgar.
Her lyrical ability was doubted because of its content, her self-respect doubted too. Eight years on, she still had to defend women having a sex life, rapping on Christina Aguilera’s Can’t Hold Us Down: ‘If the guy have three girls then he’s the man… But if a girl do the same, she’s a whore.’
Everyone from Khia to Nicki Minaj has been hit with the same double standards – that they’re letting themselves down by being sexual in their lyrics, and need to be ‘better than that’.
Nearly two decades on, Cardi and Megan are still fighting the same fight for sexual Black women, carrying on the torch from Lil Kim (they even pay homage to the rapper in WAP, with her legendary squat pose for the Hard Core promo mirrored in the fountain at the start of the video).
Two women at the top of their game and with everybody’s eyes on them, they could choose to speak about anything in their music, and they have. They want to talk about wanting big mack trucks parked in their garages, and you know what? More power to them.
https://i.imgur.com/MuRG9lq.jpg
Particularly in the music industry, women have long been seen as sex objects, relegated to faceless T&A in videos, shaking it (a skill in itself, by the way, have you ever tried to twerk) alongside the man rapping triumphantly about ‘f***ing b***hes’ every night.
There’s never any outrage when these 10-a-penny videos drop. But God forbid a woman does the same thing but without a man’s gaze upon her, and she’s the depraved harlot that should be setting a better example for the kids. Women are allowed to be sex objects when men want them to, but not when they want to be themselves.
I mean, I’m not denying that WAP is filth. It is a tour de force of filth. Somehow, the censored version, which replaces the title with the phrase ‘wet and gushy’, is even more explicit. It is an eye-opening ode to nastiness, and it is a lot, and it is not for everyone, but you know what? That’s ok.
Nobody is obliged to listen to WAP if they don’t want to; thanks to our self-curated diets of Spotify and YouTube, it’s easily avoided. But just because you don’t like Taylor Swift, or Nickleback, or Cardi and Megan’s filth, doesn’t mean that it is bad – or in the case of the latter – morally wrong.
If you want to listen to deep, meaningful rap songs, they exist. If you want to listen to a raunch-fest with your girls in the club, that exists too.
Cardi and Megan have built their empires on being talented rappers who are also sexual beings, and they are killing it. They’re not only owning what makes others nervous, but opening up the stage to other powerhouses like Normani and Sukihana, who explained why being hypersexual in the public eye is not a flaw.
Speaking on Apple Music, the rapper said: ‘I feel like being sexual and s***… I don’t see nothing wrong with that. I’ve got three kids, and I got these kids from sucking and f***ing. Me being a “hoe”… honestly, I liberate a lot of hoes.’
Sure, not every female act is feminist, but Cardi and Megan owning their bodies and their horniness and their right to be explicit without a male gaze dictating it is a radical act, which the predictable outrage continues to prove is needed.
Knowing that they have power in their sexuality is all the self-respect Cardi and Megan need, and no outrage from the repressed can undermine their worth.
RBP