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Blog - Amplify your voice

Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 5:01:00 PM EDT

Now Usher has come out with a new hit and you will never guess the name of the song… ok so I’ll tell you it’s "LITTLE FREAK", it also features an up and coming female rapper Nicki Minaj! When I first heard the clean version on the radio I was like ok not bad but I didn’t get to hear the whole song, so I went home and looked it up on YouTube. I listened to the uncut version and I must say it truly put a bad taste in my mouth. I totally was blown away by the lyrics in the song and how degrading they were. In the course Usher says "If you f**king with me, really f**king with me, you gon’ get some girls and bring em to me, if you f**king with me, really f**king with me, you let her put her hands in ya pants be my little freak." I was like OMG, I know this isn’t Usher talking like this. Then what makes it worse is when we get to Nicki's part. She boldly say's in her verse "Excuse me little momma but you can say I'm on duty. I'm looking for a cutie, a real big ole’ ghetto booty. I really like your kitty kat and if you let me touch her I know your not a bluffer I'll take you to go see Usher." I just couldn’t believe what I was hearing. Usher is basically and boldly saying if you want to be my girlfriend you have to go rub all over these other girls’ body. How disrespectful can that be? And, for Nicki Minaj to go along with it, how does that as young women make us look? I’ll tell you it makes us look like we are lowering our standards to be with a man who doesn’t even want us for real because if he did he wouldn’t have said "if you f**king with me, really f**king with me, you let her put her hands in ya pants be my little freak."  Come on ladies, we are way better than that. Yes it’s just a song some might say, but it’s a song that is looking at young women like a piece of meat.

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Comments
I agree with you that we can't look at this as "just a song." Too many singers get away with so much, and I think that these artists have to be told what we really think of their music. How can they expect their fans to respect them if this is how they choose to represent so many of them? It's not right.
# Posted By Mahayana | 3/16/10 11:40 PM | Report | Reply