Dr. Boyce: Lil Wayne Feels that “Women Should Be Respected?” Negro, Are You Serious?
by Dr. Boyce Watkins, KultureKritic.com
Someone needs to help me. I’m sitting here, going in and out of consciousness like the victim of a car accident, not able to believe my eyes and ears after hearing Lil Wayne say that he believes that “women should be respected.” If there is anything that anyone learns from hearing any Lil Wayne song for any small amount of time, it’s that he doesn’t give a f*ck about women, doesn’t have any use for women other than s*x, and would gladly shoot a woman in front of her child and put her dead body in the trunk of his car (I’m not kidding).
Part of me is glad that Lil Wayne made his remarks, since it gives us an opportunity to point out the sheer lunacy that has taken over commercialized hip-hop music, where the most ignorant and destructive among us are given the biggest microphones. If there isn’t one homicidal c**n willing to take the lopsided and exploitative contracts being offered by record labels, there is always another one willing to take his place. Like the recent “shackle slave shoe” that was going to be issued by Adidas, there are millions of us who insist on keeping our minds shackled with the very ignorance that has wired us to sing, dance and celebrate our own self-destruction.
I wrote the piece below for NewsOne.com once I saw what Wayne had said, but I’ll admit that while writing it, I was in the same cloudy brain space that Wayne occupies when he drinks and smokes himself into oblivion every morning before breakfast. I thought about the fact that I wish I could help my brother Wayne to realize that he and I are no different and come from the same place. It’s just that he made the decision to give up on himself and the people he loves, which I would never do.
But money is the most powerful drug being consumed by men like Lil Wayne. It can distort reality right in front of you and make you embrace negative energy to your very core. So, I have no interest in trying to negotiate with a drug addict, since that almost never works.
Without further ado, here’s what I said to News One:
I almost fell out of my chair, had a seizure and dropped into a massive coma when I read recent comments by the rapper Lil Wayne when making reference to his protege, Nicki Minaj. In a recent conversation with MTV, Weezy had the audacity to say that he believes that women should be respected.
“That’s a female; first and foremost Nicki Minaj is a female. I don’t know what anyone else believes, but I believe females deserve the ultimate respect at all times no matter, when or where or how,” Lil Wayne said to MTV.
Weezy made his peculiar remarks in response to a beef between Nicki and Hot 97 over comments made by DJ Peter Rosenberg. Rosenberg insulted Minaj in front of the Hot 97 audience, which is a no-no for anyone seeking to get Minaj to perform for their event. The comments led to Wayne pulling Minaj out of the Hot 97 Summer Jam. As a result, Weezy jumped out to defend Minaj’s honor in public.
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All I can say Dr. Boyce you keep it REAL brother,thanks.
Totally agree with what you are saying. Rappers are saying one thing when it works for them and when they are hit with their own words/reality than they flip the script. I love hip hop but I am not that into it anymore, it’s kind of depressing to hear some of the things that come out of their mouths.
Yes,Weezy is a product of his enivornment, (the music industry). But some come to realize their bad behavior later than others, and maybe he is maturing now. So the credit, be it late, is credit due for taking the first step in coming to Nicki Minaj’s aid.
I think that we should just step back for a moment… maybe Wayne is coming to a changing point in his life…. with his first child now being a teenage female. As a group we are too quick to shut each other down when one makes an attempt to take a righteous stand for the better just because of that persons past. Lets try a little encouragement and positivity…. this could be the beginning to a new way of thinking for him. one thing we could all stand to use as our mantra… is Let those without sin cast the first stone!
I agree with both consensuses I’m reading on this comments page but here is the problem that I’m having with the latter ones concerning Wayne finally coming of age. What happens when he makes another song and he’s still talking about not just vocifeous promiscuity and one night stands but the Pornographic nature in both intensity, multiplicity of involvement and the debasement of the women having no more value than the leaf he rolls his weed in?! The hypocrisy then becomes so salty that the lips of all those wanting to see his psychological and spiritual ascension will lilterally crack to bleeding, that’s what! Because no matter what he may say he’s not gonna stop performing the lewd material that has made Baby (his pimp) a multi-millionaire over a 100 times over! We already know what will happen to his career if he actually does turn over a new leaf so therefore that won’t happen. That’s what these slaves are all beholden to…
I’ll bet if there is some kind of financial dispute between Nicki and the Young Money establishment (which means the parent record label) the minute she’s out of the crew he, or one of the members to bolster his burgeoning status and fill the new void, will bad talk the h**l out of that poor confused young woman!!! I mean the reality of completely turning over a new leaf is what has been the result of Lauryn Hill’s career for the last 13-14 years.
The album, the name of which eludes me right now, released a year after “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill,” was chastising the entire Hip Hop music industry for those of you who didn’t know (myself included at the time it was released). That’s why she hasn’t caught a break in any way, shape or form whatsoever this whole time (look at that bullshit with the taxes, white Hollywood just negotiates a payment situation while her going up on trial is already discussed before ALL THE FACTS have truly been laid bare)…That is the ‘hidden’ truth to this whole debacle. Hip Hop, formerly the CNN of youth culture, has been successfully converted into the new ideological slave factory.
Lil Wayne needs to have a seat and stfu
In the past, I liked Weezy because he had a rough life, but he made it. So did I. When he said, “I’ve been afraid to live, but I’m not afraid to die,” I could relate because I used to feel that way. God and Universe removed the mean, vindictive, and abusive people in my life; and I am much happier and peaceful.
I like to think that Weezy is growing up, so I give him the benefit of the doubt. Some people will never let you forget stupid stuff you said and did in the past; but I always look for the good. And I usually find it.
So much truth