4 Jan 2014

Men’s Issues & Music - Kool Moe Dee +

By As I related to Dean Esmay in a phone conversation, I had been planning a series like this for a while, inspired by Robert St. Estephe’s brief historical misandry dispatches. The recent Nick Ahlverdian piece on Beyonce, specifically his comment in the thread that music is feminist and misandrist, prompted me to stop procrastinating.
While there is no doubt of the feminist infection of movies and TV, music has been one area where broad perspectives have been not just allowed, but actively promoted, even where highly charged or controversial.

Indeed, one genre has long been the vanguard for giving voice to men’s issues, some of which we are only now assigning proper names and descriptions.
As a long-time fan of rap music from its rise in the 80s, hypergamy, paternity fraud and using the womb as an ATM are not new areas of discourse for me nor for men with similar backgrounds.

Lest we forget, even recently feminist banshees unloaded a cacophony of scorn upon the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (all movie industry professionals, not the public), whose members saw fit to award a song called “It’s Hard Out There For A Pimp” its 2005 award for Best Song From A Motion Picture. Another example was the surprising appearance by the openly gay Elton John, accompanying Eminem at the 2001 Grammy’s for a rendition of “Stan” while he was under fire for allegedly “homophobic” lyrics.(John said that as a Brit, he has an elevated understanding for “gallows humor” and that people did not grasp the split-personality device of “Marshall v. Shady”)
The first entry is from Mohandes Dewese, aka Kool Moe Dee, who tackles the complimentary topics of hypergamy and paternity issues in 1989’s “They Want Money.” Holding a BA from SUNY, Dewese used an eloquent but aggressive style marked by copious internal rhyme with an expansive vocabulary. He was the only “Old School” group artist to achieve solo success. Some sample lyrics include. . .
“You better settle for an autograph/Or a hug and kiss on the cheek, maybe/
But I ain’t tryin’ to make no baby. . .”

“I made the rhymes/I made the cash
Why get married and you take half…”

Note: Kool Moe Dee to this day has no children and has never been married. Call him the Rap Music MGTOW.

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Angelo: My favorite from 2013 “AMY TRUE” BEATS, RHYMES & REVOLUTION 
(Amy enters at time point 1:20) 

“You might think that I’m unusual
because I don’t want to sell out
Get my tits out and chat that usual
See I don’t want to confuse you all
I’m not here to feed my ego
I’m here to bring the truth
so maybe we can grow
As a nation as a world
See I’m a strong woman
They’re brainwashing your daughters
to act like well groomed prostitutes
Me I’m a spartan chick
See only Spartan chicks
Have the right to speak their minds
I’m raising smarter kids…



Another great: Pollywanacraka – Public Enemy
She wants a lover right now
But not no brother
Her man gotta have a lotta money
To get under her cover
Now she’s a fine sister
But up here she’s missin’ it
She says she wanna learn about life
No old black bull shit
At the age of 15 a brother gave her a baby
She’s 19 now and it drover her crazy
And now everytime
She turns around
All the people in the neighborhood
Look and get mad and sing

Chorus (Polly-wana-craka)
Meet mr. succesful
I guess he’s blessed yeah
But he happens to be a brother
Who only wants blue eyes and blonde hair
Now this young mister
He don’t like sisters
He couldn’t find that special one
He know why he missed her
He says sisters wasn’t good enuff
They only wanted his green stuff
That’s why everytime he turned
Around all the people
In the neighborhood
Looked and got mad
And sang

Chorus
I try to tell my people
There should not be any hatred
For a brother or a sister
Whose opposite race they’ve mated
No man is god
And God put us all here (yeah)
But this system has no wisdom
The devil split us in pairs
And taught us white is good, black is bad
And black and white is still too bad
That’s why everytime I turn around
All the people in my neighborhood
Look mad and sing….

Chorus



Public Enemy – “Sophisticated Bitch”



2pac – "wonder why they call you bitch"


NWA – A Bitch Iz a Bitch’

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