![]() I can lean with it, rock with it, bitch I’m Faybo ![]() I can do it with no hands, I can step on one toe, ohh That formula is applied liberally throughout the album: simplistic hooks, simplistic beats, and exceedingly simplistic lyrics. The really awful part is that “Down for Life” doesn’t show any improvement over their lead single, which I must conclude only succeeded because it was so irritating nobody could get it out of their head. It takes some doing to make Webbie’s “Bad Bitch” sound intelligent by comparison, but D4L has succeeded brilliantly. It’s not the first misogynistic song in rap, and definitely won’t be the last, but it’s certainly among the worst. With a three note K-Rab beat and lyrics that sound like they were written by a 4th grader on a Playboy bender, D4L’s “Laffy Taffy” qualify’s as one of the stupidest songs of the year. ![]() Thank Allah that D4L doesn’t represent hip-hop as a whole. At some point though somebody has to be responsible for making a stupid song with TURRIBLE lyrics and making an equally insulting video. Some of these women might even be shaking their Laffy Taffy to pay their way through college and become a doctor or lawyer – more power to them. Neither is the woman working at the strip club who takes advantage of the fact men have a natural instinct to debase themselves and objectify women. These days there are no shortage of opportunities though with hundreds of cable and satellite channels, “Girls Gone Wild” videos, and the entrepreneurial ho can even launch her own website to shake Laffy Taffy – it’ll cost you more than a nickel though. Call it the equal opportunity ho employment program. & Rakim’s “Don’t Sweat the Technique”) getting equal opportunity to wear skimpy clothing and shake their Laffy Taffy for oogling eyes. Ironically the only objection rap fans had back then was when a video featured too many white girls and not enough nubian sisters (Eric B. When rap’s popularity exploded in the mainstream in the late 80’s and early 90’s, hip-hop used sex to sell the product like everybody else. Music video producers locked in the eyeballs of watchers with Aerosmith style videos that were borderline softcore porn. Rock’n’Roll had just as much to do with objectifying women as any other genre of music, making the term “groupie” a household word. Print media were putting women “in their place” before suffrage, and radio was convincing women there was nothing more rewarding than staying at home to raise babies a generation before TV even existed. ![]() Hip-Hop doesn’t deserve the blame for misogyny that it often gets. You made it skeet skeet skeet, like a water hose” ![]() You got my dick hard, the way you touch them toes While I sit back like a playa sippin Grey Gooseįeelin all loose, cause girl you on yo’ job Just keep that ass shakin, and I keep tippin you And what is the setting for this degradation, where women shake their “Laffy Taffy” for their amusement? The most famous of all bations of male machismo and female degradation – a strip club. To the rappers of D4L, who proclaim themselves “Down for Life” on their album cover while flashing gold chains and big handfuls of hundred dollar bills, women aren’t worth more than a nickel’s worth of candy. It wasn’t good enough to simply call the mothers sisters and daughters of the world bitches and hoes – now we’ve progressed to a whole new level of insulting. Shake that Laffy Taffy.” In the world of misogynistic rap lyrics that dehumanize women, we’ve now scraped the bottom of the lyrical barrel. ![]()
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