The DISrespect of hip hop is at an all-time high! I realized this to be true as I pulled out of the parking lot of Best Buy, and as I ripped the plastic off of Tyga’s latest LP Hotel California (which is a disappointing follow up to the king-themed and personal story he weaved with Careless World). As the the speakers thumped while I turned onto the freeway entrance,  the 2nd cut on the album DOPE (previously titled 187 ft. Rick Ross) came on and Tyga spit these venomous lyrics:

“You kissed her in the mouth? Ask her how my dick taste?”

I said to my speakers, “but Tyga I just gave you 10 dollars, why would you fuck my bitch?” and then I realized I was talking to an album that couldn’t possibly respond. The point of the story is, then and there I realized how I’ve been brainwashed to like contemporary rap, which constantly belittles, talks shit and lets me know on a constant basis that I’m not “good” enough, that I’m a “broke bitch” and that I’ll never have crooked teeth & “all gold everything” (and you know who)!

You can use the empathetic argument that women use when listening to a misogynistic song and immediately saying “he ain’t talking about me?”

Well if he’s not talking to you, then who exactly is he talking to? You bought the record, and now he’s yelling it into a speaker, and you’re plugging it directly into your ears, so where, exactly, did the message get lost in the translation?

This past week we’ve seen artists being held accountable for their lyrics, from LL Cool J, (who arguably dropped the worst rap single in hip hop history), to Rick Ross getting dropped from Reebok for his lyrics, to Jay-Z having the White House issue statements regarding his trip to Cuba on his latest single “Open Letter.”

The Rick Ross lyrics which had the internet pissed off “and he ain’t even know it” insinuates that the ‘Biggest Boss Thus Far’ was the type to spike the punch:

“Put Molly all in the champagne.  She ain’t even know it. I took her home and I enjoy that. She ain’t even know it.”

Though you can try to brush it off by saying “well he didn’t really do it,” some douchebag out there will listen and duplicate exactly what these rappers are doing. Just look what Kanye has done for male skirts, and leather in general, for the past 2 years!

Mr. West has got men wearing kilts, or leather skirts in the clubs these days, so you can’t tell me these guys aren’t listening to the rappers. The point is these guys voices are being heard, and they need to be held accountable for what they say. They can’t get off with the ole’ “I say what I want, you listened to it? ” freedom-of-speech type line. Restaurants can’t say that when you sit down to eat, if they serve you food that gives you food poisoning they’re held accountable. The head chef can’t say:

“I just cooked the shit, you’re the dummy that ate it, sorry not my fault.”

It doesn’t work like that, we need to hold our artists to the same standards and stop accepting the mindless crap that is being given by truckloads in rap.

You’ve got the peoples ears…Say something, and if it doesn’t sell, at least you tried and can hold you head high when you go back to the same:

“I got chains & bitches too.”

Just think about it, and leave your thoughts below.