Common Sense
I love Common. His music just speaks to me. He is one of the few rappers out there that produce sustenance, knowledge, and encouragement through his craft. He is a true artist in that he allows himself to be vulnerable and allows his art to speak for himself. The music is always true because it is a relative truth-at even given point it can change with the times and yet resonate.
I am really digging his new CD, BE. However, there is one song that I can do without and that song is GO! The only reason I half-way listen to it is because of John Mayer’s voice on the chorus. The verses are a bit much and one verse in particular I detest. It is perpetuating an epidemic in our ill culture-lesbianism. The verse is:
“(Go) Freaky like the daughter of a pastor, said I was bait for her to master(Go) Little red corvette now she was faster, wet dreams Le'maire cream the bathroom(Go) We made love and then laughter, and anyway I wanted I could have herSaid there were some girls that did attract her, a new chapter she was after so I said let's(Go) To a place that you wanna be, uh get what you want from her and me uh(Go) Free love I wanna see uh, hot sex in the third degree uh(Go) You gettin' served while servin' me uh, dirty words encourage me toRock steady and sturdily on, you turnin' me no turnin' back the further we”
Turn on your TV and on almost any given cable channel at any given point, you may see some homosexuality and lesbianism popping off. Why is that? What is up with the epidemic? When came the point in Black American culture where lesbianism was cool? Forgive me for saying this but there was always that gay male in the church choir or in someone’s family but NOW GIRLS are jumping on the “free love” bandwagon.
Do you want my take? Even if you don’t here it is. I believe the short answer is that we are in a sinful world that is going to hell in a hand basket and people are just sinful. As a result people have a reprobate mind and have allowed themselves to just wild out! Some folks wild out via girl – on – girl action. Women are doing this joint for a number of reasons but I will highlight just 2:
1) Some women have been so wounded by men that they are trying something new
2) They are part-time recreational lesbians and do it to please men
What is so messed up with all of these reasons is that no problems are being solved by acting out in this manner. Women sleeping with women will not heal them from the pain their ‘baby daddy’ or ex-boyfriend/ex-husband caused them. Women sleeping with women will not make a man hold on them or maintain interest due to just that factor. It is a circular journey because lesbianism will not satisfy anyone because the participants have already demonstrated their insatiability by even going that route. Men like it because it allows them so much control in the sexual situation. Even if it is two women, a man can still join in and exert all of the control. Lesbianism + a man in the scenario is all about a man proving his virility and not his desire that a woman is satisfied.
I am so mad at Common for jumping on the bandwagon and promoting this crap because it is crap! I found out on Sunday that the Mom of one of my nephews is living with another woman as a couple. This woman has to be less than 25 years old. What made her switch teams? How is this going to impact my little nephew? I am tired of women disrespecting themselves by humping other women. I am more tired of the media hyping it up like it is the way life is supposed to orchestrate. Common and the rest of the “lesbian obsessed” media need to exert some common sense and realize the basis and results of the obsession they are pushing on countless vulnerable and gullible women.
What do you all think?
I am really digging his new CD, BE. However, there is one song that I can do without and that song is GO! The only reason I half-way listen to it is because of John Mayer’s voice on the chorus. The verses are a bit much and one verse in particular I detest. It is perpetuating an epidemic in our ill culture-lesbianism. The verse is:
“(Go) Freaky like the daughter of a pastor, said I was bait for her to master(Go) Little red corvette now she was faster, wet dreams Le'maire cream the bathroom(Go) We made love and then laughter, and anyway I wanted I could have herSaid there were some girls that did attract her, a new chapter she was after so I said let's(Go) To a place that you wanna be, uh get what you want from her and me uh(Go) Free love I wanna see uh, hot sex in the third degree uh(Go) You gettin' served while servin' me uh, dirty words encourage me toRock steady and sturdily on, you turnin' me no turnin' back the further we”
Turn on your TV and on almost any given cable channel at any given point, you may see some homosexuality and lesbianism popping off. Why is that? What is up with the epidemic? When came the point in Black American culture where lesbianism was cool? Forgive me for saying this but there was always that gay male in the church choir or in someone’s family but NOW GIRLS are jumping on the “free love” bandwagon.
Do you want my take? Even if you don’t here it is. I believe the short answer is that we are in a sinful world that is going to hell in a hand basket and people are just sinful. As a result people have a reprobate mind and have allowed themselves to just wild out! Some folks wild out via girl – on – girl action. Women are doing this joint for a number of reasons but I will highlight just 2:
1) Some women have been so wounded by men that they are trying something new
2) They are part-time recreational lesbians and do it to please men
What is so messed up with all of these reasons is that no problems are being solved by acting out in this manner. Women sleeping with women will not heal them from the pain their ‘baby daddy’ or ex-boyfriend/ex-husband caused them. Women sleeping with women will not make a man hold on them or maintain interest due to just that factor. It is a circular journey because lesbianism will not satisfy anyone because the participants have already demonstrated their insatiability by even going that route. Men like it because it allows them so much control in the sexual situation. Even if it is two women, a man can still join in and exert all of the control. Lesbianism + a man in the scenario is all about a man proving his virility and not his desire that a woman is satisfied.
I am so mad at Common for jumping on the bandwagon and promoting this crap because it is crap! I found out on Sunday that the Mom of one of my nephews is living with another woman as a couple. This woman has to be less than 25 years old. What made her switch teams? How is this going to impact my little nephew? I am tired of women disrespecting themselves by humping other women. I am more tired of the media hyping it up like it is the way life is supposed to orchestrate. Common and the rest of the “lesbian obsessed” media need to exert some common sense and realize the basis and results of the obsession they are pushing on countless vulnerable and gullible women.
What do you all think?
posted by JoiDoe @ 10:30 AM
4 Comments:
Truthfully...I don't know what i think. I dont want to gay bash. As a believer, I don't know the line between condemning and condoning. I think this nation is just hypersexual in general and that just manifests itself in a variety of ways. As peoples apetite for sex and self seeking pleasure increase they find a variety of ways to fulfill these desires. I think that is just a human thing. Why the rise of homosexuality, i think it has just become more socially acceptable. Why in black women in particular, partly because of what i just mentioned and partly, the lack of availible and quality black men. In so many venues the wrong has become the norm so that right and wrong are not even a vocabulary. People just do what they feel or what makes them feel good...that is not new, its just more apparent. This country is beginning to lack any kind of standards and i am not talking about law or legal standards, I am talking about social standards. Its one thing to be open minded, its another to be so open minded that your brain falls out.
Yeah, i feel you trying to find that fine line between condeming and condoning. i dont want to do either, however, some one needs to discuss what most logical people are thinking. homosexuality is not cool and a difficult thing to discuss. but what is more not cool is folks who are doing it just because it is the thing to do and they saw someone on mtv do it or because rappers say they like lesbians and threesomes or because we as a culture are so loose with our standards of conduct. when i heard that lisa raye is a lesbian i thought the world was going to end. here is one of the most beautiful woman on the planet and men everywhere love her. she has a child so evidently she has been with a man before but now is decides to be a lesbian. i just don't understand.
I have Common's CD "Be" as well. I too was a bit disturbed by the song Go. Although, I kinda like John Mayer's voice on the track...Kanye's voice annoys me & the lyrics repulse me.
It's a pretty sad state of affairs when we can see & hear the approval of homosexuality on tv and in songs. Lesbianism is spreading like crazy. Have you seen some of these young girls troopin around looking like dudes?
It's crazy. I do agree that women tend to stray that way because men have hurt them. I can't find any other excuse as to why a woman with 3 kids would want to jump in the sack with a chick.
Lauryn Hill says it best
Eve was so naive, blinded by the pride and greed. Wanting to be intellectual. Drifting from the way she got turned down one day
and now she thinks that she's bisexual
Caught up in emotion. Burning up in her devotion to the king of exploitaion in the field. She handed him her virtue because he told her 'I won't hurt you'...So she lay with him to see how good it feels
Say it ain't so - LisaRaye a lesbian? I can't believe that. That woman is too fine to be a lesbian. She looked so good in the movie "Rhapsody". LisaRaye is my girl. I will be crushed if that is true. You sure know how to mess up somebody's day.
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