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You wanna know why I fucks with #WAP 
? Because I was the preacher's kid who grew up in the Deep South with a grandmother who told her she would start to smell and become addicted to sex. My greatest fear was not being inadequate it was being a musty sex addict at 18.
? Because I was the preacher's kid who grew up in the Deep South with a grandmother who told her she would start to smell and become addicted to sex. My greatest fear was not being inadequate it was being a musty sex addict at 18.
No for real: ya girl lived in a house that was a live-in chastity belt - bars on all the windows, out in the country - the "county" - and at least one of my grandparents was home all the damn time. Rapunzel ain't have shit on me.
My saving grace as a teenager whose hormones were on 50-11 were my friends and Trina, Missy, Joi, and all the slow grind hunchin' songs of the late 90s and early 2000s LMAO.
Some people call it respectability politics but that's too academic. Most southern Black girls know respectability as being "ladylike." Being ladylike meant being invisible to men and boys. The wrong kinda attention. And that fucks you up when you start dating and shit.
The "ho shit" you snickered at girls for doing in high school is re-labeled "pre-game" when you get to college/ college-age. Again, learned this shit the hard way LOL.
But also, sexual autonomy goes against that doctrine of sex as work: procreation, dassit. And this ideology is complicated for southern Black women. We dealing with the residual politics of sex for enslaved women as demeaning, as market value, and as painful.
And then there's the Movement, where ladylike gauged your protest. For example, Claudette Colvin doing the work but being pushed out of the movement by leadership because she was an unwed teenage mother. She was bout that liberation life, but her sexual activity was deemed not.
Southern hip hop is a lot of things, and the ability to create liberated spaces to be whoever the hell you want is foundational. Speaking truth to power is not restricted to the language available. It is also a reflection of the language and actions necessary to move forward.
So to see Cardi and Meg specifically pick up the mantle of other southern Black women musicians that wasn't scared of the dick - Millie Jackson, Bessie Smith, Khia, Jackie-O, Missy Elliott, Trina - lets me know our girl did her homework.
