Some things, you just have to ‘cut the cord’. At one time in my life I was willing to look past the Colt 45 blonde streak and razor in the mouth-itude of Remy Ma. She is/was also thick. That’s enough for a pause. You know, almost like a chick, thinking, “Ahh, she’ll grow out of it. She’ll change.” Then pictures like this surface..

..and you have no choice but to grab the scissors and ‘cut the cord.’

There was a time when Snoop’s snarl and bark was a language I could actually understand. Like a pitbull and a rotweiller passing on the block, those strange sounds were understood, while the ‘humans’ looked on clueless to the chatter. Then he turns around and dresses Russell Simmons in Al Sharpton’s suit. He’s ‘irrelevant!’ The guy that put life into the corporate side of the game that allows him to smoke weed and get banned from international airports worldwide. The guy that paved the sidewalk so he wouldn’t have to be found one day - with the gangs and all - possibly laying on it. That guy is irrelevant?

That’s blasphemous.

Push that aside.. when Snoop goes on and on about video chicks being church girls with ambition, praises their websites, calendars, etc. without acknowledging that having them spinning on stripper poles and flashing oiled up butt cheeks is hardly contributing to ‘the cause.’

In other words: don’t sell shit as meatloaf.

Be honest. Sell it as shit and no one gets upset. It’s now the people’s choice.

With Snoop, the scissors are ready, one more ridiculous thing.. I cut the cord.

Cousin Jeff (you know this guy?) wrote an editorial for CNN today saying “Don’t Blame Hip-Hop for Society’s Sexism.”

He lays the foundation..“Music videos have become machismo fairy tales that have more “ogre and ass” scenes than the Shrek trilogy.. these images attempt to pass off the objectification of black women specifically as “true beauty” in the name of entertainment.”

“These images and lyrics, while acceptable for adults, are targeted to a demographic made up of young people ages 12 to 16.”

Think 106 and Park.

He then mentions some behind the scenes activity on a BET production.

“I interviewed a panel of high school students. One of those students, a 15-year-old girl, stated that she was not satisfied with how she looked because she wanted to be like the girls in the videos. After all, the boys want to be with girls in the videos. One of the young men followed up by saying that the girls in the videos were cool to sleep with, but not to take home.”

“In that very brief snippet of conversation, we get a sense of the negative impact that these sexist and misogynistic images have on hip-hop’s biggest fans.”

As I read that it’s uh, amazing to think he’s actually defending hip-hop.

His argument is hip-hop is a byproduct of the people and the culture. Learned behaviors from the community past and present and then broadens that scope to include.. “The soft porn we see on many cable networks, the access to all forms of porn via the Internet, and Madison Avenue’s continued recognition that sex sells..”

These things he says have.. “desensitized an entire generation to the objectification of women.”

That’s a very loose argument.

I agree Playboy and Penthouse magazine, porn, and sex and violence in movies exsited before hip-hop was ever thought of, but hip-hop is now the most imitated and persuasive influence in American culture. Point blank. We all know where Don Imus got the idea to call women ho’s.

It seems to me that there is an unbalanced scale of images pertaining to hip-hop. We have a one note-charlie situation, the unbalance is the reason the music is being singled out as a poison. Given an equal platform, the context of video chicks, guns and butter, against Outkastian, De La, Tribesters would be clear cut. Not one better than the other, but making an obvious distinction, that the music is played on more than one octave.

But you know, the music industry has no desire to push anything. Said before.

Got that Sa-Ra? You should.