{"id":4316,"date":"2019-02-27T20:37:16","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T01:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.pages.roanoke.edu\/?p=4316"},"modified":"2019-02-27T20:37:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T01:37:16","slug":"queens-of-rap-where-the-bag-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=4316","title":{"rendered":"Queens of Rap: WHERE THE BAG AT?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written by Shamira James<\/em><\/p>\n

When I was younger, I remember my mom would play her music around the house or on the car rides home. Some of it was classic, feel-good music like Michael Jackson, or upbeat and unapologetic girl-music like TLC and even powerhouse ballads from Luther Vandross, but a lot of it was raunchy and hypersexual rap music from female rappers. Of course, she would try to change the song if she thought I was listening too much. If she caught me singing, it was worse. <\/span><\/p>\n

My earliest memory being when I around eight or nine and was singing Beenie Man and Ms. Thing\u2019s 2004 hit \u201cDude\u201d in which Ms. Thing asks for a \u201cone, two, three hour man.\u201d We grew up in a time where censorship wasn\u2019t a big deal. For crying out loud, Sisqo\u2019s video for his 1999 hit \u201cThong Song\u201d literally had girls on the beaches of Miami baring it all in swimsuit thongs. <\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, when a male rapper has beautiful women half dressed in a video or suggestive lyrics, it\u2019s not groundbreaking, but when a woman does, it takes the world by storm, and that\u2019s an issue. <\/span><\/p>\n

Women finding their place in the world of sexy rap music has always caught people off guard, and that\u2019s because it\u2019s always unexpected of how far they\u2019ll go. Khia in her 2002 hit \u201cMy Neck, My Back\u201d goes all the way there when she begins the song in the most tame way she possibly could: \u201cright now, lick it good, lick this p***y just like you should,\u201d and to this day people are taken back by her outright sexual presence. Also there\u2019s Lil Kim\u2019s 2000 hit \u201cSuck My D**k\u201d where all she wants is to \u201cget her p***y sucked.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

This was an era of music I thought we had lost for forever. I saw more female rappers coming out, but they had to take more-aggressive-about-my-paper-stance when it came to paving a way for them in the doors of rap. This gave us boss hits like, Lil Kim\u2019s \u201cThe Jump-off,\u201d Nicki Minaj\u2019s \u201cBeez In the Trap,\u201d and even more recent artists like Saweetie\u2019s \u201cICY GIRL\u201d which samples Khia. While I love nothing more than a song that makes me feel truly untouchable, there\u2019s something about a song that takes back female sexuality, and this is coming back in a big way. <\/span><\/p>\n

Cardi B made waves with her now Grammy-winning album, <\/span>Invasion of Privacy<\/span><\/i>, which had tracks like \u201cGet Up 10\u201d and \u201cBodak Yellow\u201d that talk about her rags-to-riches story and how she worked hard for everything she has. \u201cRing\u201d ft. Kehlani and \u201cBe Careful,\u201d which were pleas to a lover, keep her emotions and feelings in mind because they wouldn\u2019t appreciate if she treated them the way that they treated her. <\/span><\/p>\n

Coming off of such a strong album can be hard, but Cardi has quickly gotten back in the studio, released songs like \u201cPlease Me\u201d ft. Bruno Mars, and a remix to the already released \u201cThotiana\u201d. What\u2019s particularly interesting about these tracks is that they are both unapologetically sexual. Lyrics from \u201cPlease Me\u201d include \u201cOn the dance floor, no panties in the way\u201d and \u201cDinner reservations like the p***y you gon\u2019 eat out,\u201d and Thotiana is too raunchy for me to quote. <\/span><\/p>\n

Cardi is being accompanied by other sexually present icons such as Cupcakke and City Girls in this venture into bringing back sex into female music. Icons like Lil Kim, Foxy Brown and Salt -N- Pepa pioneered this movement, and it\u2019s about more than just music. Females being open and clear about what they want in the bedroom is what 2019 needs. Playing coy is fun, and there is something attractive about subtlety, but when you have a lady like Cardi B in your face saying \u201cbetter f**k me like we listenin\u2019 to Jodeci,\u201d there\u2019s no guessing about what she wants. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Written by Shamira James When I was younger, I remember my mom would play her music around the house or on the car rides home. Some of it was classic, feel-good music like Michael Jackson, or upbeat and unapologetic girl-music like TLC and even powerhouse ballads from Luther Vandross, but a lot of it was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Nicki_Minaj.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}