I didn’t think I would ever find a female musician who’d make Ms. Rihanna “Whips and Chains” Fenty look like a Sunday School teacher. Unfortunately, we found her with Chella H, aka MiChellaObama, with the extremely putrid, repulsive and perverse “Pay for This” rap song.
You almost need goggles and gloves to take a hold of this song and video.
While Rihanna is off on an expedition looking for her “Rude Boy” to tend to her loins, Chella H is telling you over and over again that her genitalia is going to cost you, telling you that you “have to pay for this p—-” with such profane and vulgar regularity that my ears threaten to bleed. And this Chicago-based rapper has young women singing the song and joining her in proclaiming that their vaginas are not free.
This tragedy in the form of a female rapper reminds me of what Minister Louis Farrakhan once cried out during one of his controversial speeches:
“Our black female [musical] groups used to call themselves ‘The Supremes’ and ‘The Vandellas.’ Today, they’re calling themselves ‘B—-es With Attitudes’ and ‘Whores with Problems.’ ”
Farrakhan also asked rhetorically, with more than just a hint of frustration in his voice, “Are we so lost in our lust for more material things that we cannot see the world around us closing down?”
Apparently not. There is utter shamelessness in many of our people’s attempts to attain, and maintain, fame and fortune. Academy Award-winner Laurence Fishburne’s daughter immediately comes to mind. And this cultural scavenger named Chella H has no problem defaming one of the world’s most respected women, who happens to be the first black first lady ever. More than that, Obama is a beautiful woman with a lovely physique who did not, at any time in her life, auction off her beauty nor physical attributes to the highest bidder to procure anything in life. She used her mind.
Maybe what actress Ashley Judd wrote in her book was right. Maybe most of rap music today is just what she said it is: “rape culture.” As a person who was born and raised on hip-hop music, I cannot defend this. This is horrible. This is not creative expression. This is barbarism.
If Chella H (because I absolutely refuse to call her MiChellaObama) wanted to jack Michelle Obama’s swag in such a blatant way, then why not do so in the educational arena instead of the rap arena? And, if she wanted to use rap as a way of expressing herself, why would she drag Michelle Obama’s name through the cesspool of human indignity in order to bring shine to herself?
–terry shropshire
