“Glory”- Jay Z
“Before I got in the game, made a change and got rich / I didn’t think about using the word bitch / I rapped, I flipped it, I sold it, I lived it / Now with my daughter in this world I curse those that give it / No man will degrade her and call her names.”
“Keep Shining” – Shad
“There’s no girls rappin’ so we’re only hearin’ half the truth/What we have to lose? Too much/Half our youth aren’t represented, the better halves of dudes/So we don’t hear about your brain, just your brains/How you rock a fella, Stacey Dash dames/We just need your voice like an a capella/Something in the music’s gotta change…My mom taught me where to keep my heart/My aunts taught me how to sing two parts/My sis taught me how to parallel park/Tried to teach me math but she’s way too smart/My grandma in her 80′s is still sharp/My girl cousin’s an activism at art/They taught me there’s no curls too tight/No mind to bright/No skin too dark to keep shining.
Independent – Webbie ft Lil’ Phat and Lil’ Boosie
“She’ll buy her own/I don’t think she’ll never look/in a man face waitin’ for him to take care of her/She’ll rather go to work and pay the bills on schedule…I-N-D-E-P-E-N-D-E-N-T do you know what that mean?”
Drake- Good Girls Gone Bad
““Respect women, I don’t care if they a 2 or a 10/ we don’t beat on Kat Stacks we just bring it to an end”
“Nothin’ On You” – B.o.B. ft. Bruno Mars
Time to heal our women, be real to our women/And if we don’t we’ll have a race of babies/that will hate the ladies, that make the babies/And since a man can’t make one/He has no right to tell a woman when and where to create one/So will the real men get up/I know you’re fed up ladies, but keep your head up
Also – the entire Lauryn Hill oeuvre.
love, love, love the Queen Latifah tune
Brilliant post.
The “Nothin’ On You” lyric does involve dicking on women. Mr. Fantastic can stretch his appendages. Stretching his appendages… yes, dicking.