Let’s not act like anything coming out the rap game right now is new. 2 Live Crew had y’all popping that coochie, throwing tha D while being nasty as they wanted to be. The ONLY difference today is that 2 Live Crew wasn’t our only option… because we supported the music and artists we wanted to hear.
We bought music and merchandise. We went to shows. We didn’t just say we supported, we supported with our dollars. Today mofos will barely click like on a post on social media and clicking is free.
And WE dictated. The streets dictated until they started to dumb down the music and hypersexualize the artists. And Not just female artists. Male artist have been talbout fucking bitches since the origins of rap: Hotel, Motel, Holiday Inn, okay?!
And it wasn’t just artists selling out, djs, the first tastemakers sold out for radio. For club gigs. And many when djs had the game on lock, many pushed anybody that would pay them. Ditto for promoters, there’s enough blame to go around.
Sexy Red ain’t a first rap game or even new here in St. Louis. “Ass In Your Face” was Ebony Eyes’ break out single, hello?? And fam Stevie Wonder could have seen this coming after WAP.
Cats are being hypocritical with fake outrage, yeah fake because 99.9% of them don’t support “real” shit or the platforms that push the culture. Cats crying about Sexy Red didn’t support the culture before Red and they’re not supporting now. Cats that support real shit will continue, regardless.
Condemning Red is easy. I wanna see mofos condemn the commercial rap machine, you know, the labels, the stations and others that choose who gets on and capitalize off the exploitation… But they won’t. Mofos won’t even condemn rappers that sold out Mike Brown, Darren Seals and the movement but got shit to say about Sexy Red? FOH!
And wonder why very few are checking for St. Louis outside of Nelly and Red. Because mofos don’t stand for shit. Love or hate Red at least she’s being true to who she is unlike many that critique her, yet stay watching her every move. Like attracts like, sooooooo….
*And for the simpletons, this ain’t about my tastes or opinion of Red. I know the industry all too well and been around too long. I don’t believe in censorship. And I took the same stance when KRS came for Nelly blaming him for the state of rap music when he blew up but didn’t have shit to say about Diddy or Jay Z or 50 in his own backyard.
Mos Def said hip hop was gonna mirror the people.
Look around.
Red is from the most dangerous city in the nation. And rose to the top of the rap game.
She wasn’t supposed to make it. She was supposed to be a statistic and I ain’t knocking lil sis for playing the hand she was dealt and coming out on top.
All eyes on Red. What happens next is on her.
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