What a delightfully nuanced and careful exploration of your feelings and thoughts around this song.

I’m fully supportive of all artists to do their thing. Zero hate on these women for the art they create and produce.

As a GenX woman of Nordic descent that grew up with hip hop, from KRS1 and Tupac to Lauryn Hill, Mos Def, Black Thought and the Roots Crew…. my question is this.

Has the way Cardi B. & Megan Thee Stallion been taught to blaze their power through their art empowered THEM? Is this about their intrinsic experience?

Or are they just playing the role of the bold, self-centric, sexualized, unbothered black female rebel instead of defaulting into being a complacent, nurturing black female sidekick?

Is their raw display of sexuality what THEY’RE truly feeling? Or is it what they’re trying to make their AUDIENCE feel?

Is it performative; or a primal reclamation of life force power?

Maybe these ladies just got cranked and sexy and it’s a huge flex to put out a song with this title.?!?

Maybe it’s all dramatically calculated to draw as much interest and profit as possible?

For me what’s important is creating a world where we can ALL express ourselves, however we want to. So…

Go rapper ladies for your raw display of power

Go you for writing this article

And go us for wanting to talk about it all!

#onelove
ModernFeminineAlchemy.com