Let me begin here...

First thing's first. You must experience it:


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*sigh*

Lets go get em...

Many of the issues in this video/song have already been noted i.e. his blatant homophobia by saying "gay" to call out the "fake ass emcees" as he dubbs them. Also is use of the word nigga is contestable. I ain't here to talk about that (entirely) I just want to focus on some of the gendered issues at play here.

Certainly inspired by recent comments made by Bill Cosby (who he notes as a man who calls all of them out too) there is some serious blame the victim here. While I am down for the whole calling out mainstream rap's obsession with bling, hypersexualization etc. I think there is a fine line between critique of prorities in rap music and a kind of fire and brimstone about what it is Black people should do to prove themselves respectable citizens. I think this becomes most evident in his critique of women in videos ("video vixens" and emcees alike) who do exploit thier sexuality. While it is clear that I have my own beef with that, what NYOIL does not do is critique the misogyny at play within the two worlds he critiques together yet implies are seperate. Basically, there is no examination of how misogyny influences what role black women take in rap videos and popular culture. While critiquing these "hoes" (yes he calls them hoes) he demands the same migonynistic powers that are demanded of them in the videos to "suck his dick." Not only this but he differentiates young queens from these women-- aparently these women have been dethroned. But I could be asking too much of him. Clearly he stated his mission and purpose in his critique of male rappers. Citing who they are and what they do as "gay." The misogynistic overtones of anything that comes in his critique of women will certainly spill over into his assumptions about what being a woman and a man is. He posits in one of the verses, a case in point where a black woman is being sexually and violently abused/used by a white man this juxtaposed to his liberal use of the term gay to describe these "Uncle Tom" (in service to white people) rappers looks to me like some of the historical associations of gay men and women as traitors to the race (read heterosexual black men). The first for as Eldridge Imagined in his pivotal text Soul on Ice the "faggot" would allow the white man to fuck him in the ass (of course black gay sexuality was constructed around interracial relationships). This fucking allies the gay black male an intimate way to white power, thus selling out "the race." This black women in this pseudo rape vignette is allied to the white man similarly without regard to the power issues he set forth in his verse--she is traitor for her act because in allowing this white man to "nut in her face" she has rejected the black man (read the black race).

Its classic and nauseating. I'm just comforted by the fact that I know hip hop can be more intersectional in its presentation.

p.s. I don't think Malcom, Martin, Garvey, or even Oprah would agree that any of these emcees should get lynched. I just want to go on record as having said that.