Oh Great, XXL Magazine & Rapper Too $hort, Give “Fatherly Advice” on How to “Rape” Little Girls
I would be inclined think having a kid in the house has changed the length of that “rope” we talk about reaching the end of when it comes to what we will and won’t tolerate. A clear-thinking individual, however, should see the problem in the language used in some certain situations.
Recently, XXLMag.com did a spot with former rapper Too $hort did a column in which he gave “fatherly advice,” in which he explains to prepubescent boys best practices on how to “turn girls out.” Yes, I know that Too $hort was still releasing albums as recently as about two weeks from when I type this, but none have charted worth mentioning since 2000, so he is a “former” rapper and currently a cartoon pimp character. In the above link, you will find his instruction to boys is to skip right past the (presumably consensual and decently innocent kissing) and to–… wait, I will excerpt.
“When you get to late middle school, early high school and you start feeling a certain way about the girls… I’m gonna tell you a couple tricks. A lot of the boys are going to be running around trying to get kisses from the girls… We’re going way past that. I’m taking you to the hole.”
Then it got REALLY fun, when he continued by asking the women off camera to cover up their ears and continued…
“You push her up against the wall, you take your finger and put a little spit on it and you stick your finger in her underwear and you rub it on there and watch what happens.”
My specific concern, as it relates to this is quite heavily influenced by the little miracle that entered my family on July 15th. Yes, as a father of a daughter who I am more than willing to admit has me wrapped around her little fingers right now, the “what happens next” is most likely to be a very violent felony on my part the very instant I catch wind of it.
So What Are You Saying, Todd?
My quest would start at the school with the individual who decided to take Too $hort’s rape instructions seriously and escalate up to and through his father – provided he or his mother knows who he is.
When I read of the article this morning (the original was taken off, but is available elsewhere), I was just about to be shocked, then I remembered who we were reading about, and my shock simply turned back to imagination of just how badly the unlucky bastard to try this with daughter or nieces would be. Let’s just say the outcome involves an anonymous phonecall from a just-purchased Net10 phone to my brother and best friend to meet me in the middle of the woods and to have a couple of big holes already dug.
I know there was a time where I had thicker skin for this kind of talk; usually ending it with “meh, it’s just music,” but something about the situation in which the person posting this from the position of a now-former rapper (pending earlier explanation, naturally) at age 45 and presumably a father, one would hope that one just wouldn’t take it this far, especially not providing specific rape instructions. I guess achievement of the ripe old age of 32 and the presence of a 7-month-old all too willing to show me her two teeth changed that.
What it also boils down to, to me at least, is plausibility. I mean that to say that when someone commits ANYTHING to a rap record, you take it with a grain of salt or simply don’t believe it at all – similar to my lack of belief that Beyonce actually CARRIED that baby – and it is more easily cast aside. But when someone comes OFF of a record to say something like this, there’re no grins, no fun and games, only the stated advocacy of pre-teen sexual deviance. To this point, no one has walked back any of these comments beyond removal of the offensive posting, and when one considers the outpouring of far lighter things that people are bludgeoned into empty apologies for every single day, that really bothers me.
Oh well, not like I have EVER paid for anything Too $hort has released, so no changes forthcoming there.
