Recently, two men at two completely opposite ends of the hiphop spectrum—Ian Connor and Afrika Bambaataa—were alleged to have committed multiple counts of sexual assault. Ian Connor is pretty much contemporary fashion-rap’s premier famous-for-nothing hypebeast, uh, stylist—who I admit I never thought much of. In fact, I always thought less of cats who kept him around or legitimized him (ASAP, Kanye).
However I feel about him, at the time of this writing at least two women—Malika Anderson and singer Jean Deaux—have shared allegations of being assaulted by Connor. Connor has denied all the allegations.
(I’m not gonna nitpick the mechanics of rape here like OG Maco’s apologist ass—but the percentage of women, especially Black women, who’ve reported being sexually assaulted should be staggering to anybody who knows women to be human.)…