I have gone this far in 2019 without wondering even once what Jermaine Dupri thought about anything. Unfortunately, on Thursday, that streak came to an end when Dupri decided to share a wadded up Kleenex masquerading as a thought on his feelings about women rappers.
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In a recent interview with People magazine, the 46-year-old producer and owner of the So So Def record label said todayโs women rappers sound โlike strippers.โ
โI feel theyโre all rapping about the same thing,โ Dupri said. โI donโt think theyโre showing us whoโs the best rapper. For me, itโs like strippers rapping. [โฆ] OK, you got a story about you dancing in the club, you got a story about you dancing in the club, you got a story about you dancing in the club.โ
Considering that Iโve been hearing male rappers talking about their stroke game since Iโve literally been in grade school, this is a So So Tone Def take from a hip-hop legend who appears to be desperately clinging onto the last vestiges of relevance.
And, considering women rappers areโand have beenโthe most charismatic, interesting, and ferocious rappers of this here year of our Lord, they had a little something to say to Mr. Dupri.
Cardi B posted a couple responses on Instagram.
โFirst of all, I rap about my pussy because sheโs my best friend,โ the megastar rapper and former stripper quipped. She also pointed out that when she drops songs like โBe Carefulโโa track about trying to reconcile with an unfaithful partnerโlisteners are thrown off or complain that the music isnโt what theyโre used to from her.
In a second video, she listed other women rappers who have been out, who have been rapping about non-pussy related things (although, shit, rap about pussy-related things if you want! Men do!). She specifically shouted out Rapsody, Tierra Whack (who made XXLโs 2019 Freshman Class, along with Megan Thee Stallion and Rico Nasty), Chika and Kamaiyahโwomen that people like Jermaine Dupri erase when they say all women rappers are one thing (when they are not, nor have ever been one thing).
Other women rappers who jumped in with responses? Doja Cat, who rattled off at least 17 women rappers who donโt fit Dupriโs little mold off the top of her head; Rapsody, who reveled in all the dopeness women rappers bring to the table; and Kamaiyah, who very much wanted to remind all you motherfuckers that sheโs from Oakland.
Singer Ari Lennoxโsaint of my summertime heartโeven dropped a few bars that sound better than anything Dupri ever had ghostwritten for him.
Noname just dropped a picture of Jermaine with no words, because I mean...she has a point.
Now if itโs alright with you Jermaine, Iโm going to attend to my very important weekend plans, which consist of wearing coochie cutters, blasting Leikeli47, and looking at old pictures of womenโs soccer star and perennial hot girl Megan Rapinoe in a bathing suit.
Bitch, good day!
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