What up world? For those of you that don’t know me, I go by the name of Sha Stimuli. I’m a hip-hop artist that chooses to dwell outside of the box when it comes to my craft so allow me to vent in the next few months. I’m not going to bore you with my on goings and accolades like most artists; I’m going to use this forum to simply point out observations. Some will be humorous, some will be sad, others you may not care about but if you remember “Deep Thoughts” by Jack Handey on SNL or Arsenio Hall’s “Things to make you say hmmm” then you might see where I’m going.
A few years ago I did a record called “Is It Me?” It was a clever joint that let me speak about what I saw going on in the industry and in the world at the time. For instance, hip-hop was being dominated by the South and I kept hearing that it was better to not be good at rap. Now is it me or does that kind of go against everything that is right in the world? I also noticed that 50 Cent criticized Ja Rule’s style of sing-song rap heavily to put a dent in his career, and then 50 turned around and used the same crooning tactic on 80% of his own music. That was pretty foul.
I even eluded to the fact that when I was growing up, “head” or felatio or whatever you want to call it, just didn’t seem like the norm. Maybe it was because I was young but I was in high school just like these kids are today. And I know “brain” was being performed back then but it was very taboo. Even at my next level of education, head wasn’t something that was expected every time out and if it went down, ladies weren’t exactly proud and boastful. Now I wasn’t sure if it was just me, but it seemed like Lil Kim’s claim that she used to be scared of the dick, then she began to throw lips to the shit, started some type of felatio revolution. It wasn’t instant but it was a gradual thing that today has boomed into radio records about it, more women confessing to loving the act and as I speak to the young and older males, it is just as expected as a part of sex. In the words of the great Chris Rock as it applies to those women who do not perform “They still make you?”
I was confused as well how the term “wife beater” lasted so long through so many generations and social settings. It was amazing to me how many different people referred to a tank top as a “beater” during the description of a shirt. In interviews with R&B singers talking about a man in a wife beater and timbs, on the news, “he had a wife beater on when he shot him.” How do things like this happen? Is domestic violence that accepted? Maybe pimps are just welcomed in our society that much that they influence fashion. Speaking of fashion, some of you may remember the Japanese designed Bathing Ape sneaker craze coupled with the hip-hop world’s infatuation with Red Monkey jeans. I was sure I wasn’t alone in noticing the naming of these lines after primates and then selling them to the African-American community for ridiculous prices. I even bought some. They’re probably still laughing at us.
One of the last things I touched on and this may be touchy was the gay community trying to compare their struggles to that of the Civil Rights movement for Black people. Now I have nothing against gay folks. I do make a joke here and there because I may not understand it but I’m entitled to poke fun, no pun intended. But all I was saying was that I believed the battles fought for equality were similar in some ways since there’s discrimination but if you think about it, that’s about it. I don’t know if I’m wrong and again it could just be me but homosexuality is a choice, it’s not like I can act un-Black for a few hours just so I can use the white bathroom. If we were to practice sexuality segregation, gay people could definitely blend in and drink from the “straight” water fountain or sit on the “straight” side of the bus. If it was 1967 and my brown ass got on the bus, I was headed to the back and you wouldn’t have to ask my nationality to make sure. What I mean is you can see “Black,” we can’t turn that on and off. I do believe God created everyone equal but knock it off, “gay” is not the new “Black.”
Enough reminiscing, hopefully y’all get it. I will fast forward into the present next time and touch on the things today that may be perplexing me a tad bit that I seem to be alone on observing like…skinny jeans. What the hell is a skinny jean?
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