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How a Thug Can Love
Stranger freelancer Tony Ware writes:
Recently I experienced the Busta Rhymes’ single “I Love My Bitch,” and its heartfelt appreciation for the long-suffering Nubian Princess made me think of another such tribute from a simpler time. Back in the 19 Hundredth and 94th Year of Our Lord LL Cool J an MC named Tasty Taste from the group Niggaz with Hats, a.k.a. N.W.H., proved that, in the words of rapper Tone Def, “The Black man was the first sensitive man, long before Alan Alda.” Tasty Taste did so with the following words:
“I want to make you mine/Slap your fat behind/Tie you down and make you whine/I want you to scratch my itch/And be my bitch/Because I love you girl.”
These words—much like when Busta says, “I love my girl ‘cause she knows the shit/She acting kinda ill but she ain’t scared of the dick”—show a man expressing his vulnerability. I would like to commend these men for showing how a thug can love.
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...or, Westside Connection's yearning for "a bitch straight down, penitentiary bound / With the qualifications of a hoe like you / C-sections, tattoos, stretch marks and bullet wounds"
I don't see what the problem is, unless freedom of speech is a problem. I'm more offended by the new Neil Young album, to be honest (and I'm neither pro-war or pro-Bush.)
what offends you about it, JJ?
I wouldn't know where to begin. I think the moment my stomach started to turn was during the second track, where he's singing something along the lines (and I'm just paraphrasing here) of "I would never bomb you." Well, no shit. I don't expect to ever open the paper and see the headline "Neil Young Bombs Iraqi Village; 12 Killed." The rest of the lyrics are just as preachy and ham-handed. One song has a trumpet solo. He's Canadian. The list goes on.
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DJ Quick has that tender eloquence -
"I got the bitches on my jock like an airplane wing and the only way for me to get 'em off I have to sing, I say, "Oooh hoe, don't jock me so, never-ever-ever wanna let me go, once I whip this dick on you!"
http://www.mp3lyrics.org/d/dj-quik/sweet-black-pussy/