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Women Rappers Drag Jermaine Dupri By His Nose Hairs After He Alleges They All Sound 'Like Strippers'

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. Suggested Reading Three Friends Were Headed To A Beyoncรฉ Concert,…

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 todayโ€™s women rappers sound โ€œlike strippers.โ€

โ€œI feel theyโ€™re all rapping about the same thing,โ€ Dupri said. โ€œI donโ€™t think theyโ€™re showing us whoโ€™s the best rapper. For me, itโ€™s like strippers rapping. [โ€ฆ] 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 Iโ€™ve been hearing male rappers talking about their stroke game since Iโ€™ve 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 areโ€”and have beenโ€”the 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.

โ€œFirst of all, I rap about my pussy because sheโ€™s my best friend,โ€ the megastar rapper and former stripper quipped. She also pointed out that when she drops songs like โ€œBe Carefulโ€โ€”a track about trying to reconcile with an unfaithful partnerโ€”listeners are thrown off or complain that the music isnโ€™t what theyโ€™re 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 XXLโ€™s 2019 Freshman Class, along with Megan Thee Stallion and Rico Nasty), Chika and Kamaiyahโ€”women 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 donโ€™t fit Dupriโ€™s 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 sheโ€™s from Oakland.

https://twitter.com/jadapsmith/status/1149718331894583297
https://twitter.com/kamaiyah/status/1149681380776800256

Singer Ari Lennoxโ€”saint of my summertime heartโ€”even dropped a few bars that sound better than anything Dupri ever had ghostwritten for him.

https://twitter.com/B_r_i_t_t_96/status/1149523082891055104

Noname just dropped a picture of Jermaine with no words, because I mean...she has a point.

https://twitter.com/noname/status/1149521140877950976

Now if itโ€™s alright with you Jermaine, Iโ€™m going to attend to my very important weekend plans, which consist of wearing coochie cutters, blasting Leikeli47, and looking at old pictures of womenโ€™s soccer star and perennial hot girl Megan Rapinoe in a bathing suit.

Bitch, good day!

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