But has the music gotten hypersexed beyond all reason? After all of these decades and all of these variations on the same theme, has it finally become too obsessed with sex?
Hip-hop superstar Lil Wayne has approximately 4,785 references to sex on his latest album, I Am Not A Human Being II, and the posting of nude or semi-nude Instagram pics have become a secondary career for artists like pop superstar Rihanna. Weezy’s biggest controversy of 2013 involved him making a crude and regrettable sexual metaphor — specifically, he stated that he would “Beat the p—y like Emmett Till” on Future’s “Karate Chop” remix. Rapper Rick Ross came under fire earlier this year for his verse on Rocko’s “U.O.E.N.O.,” which included a boast about slipping a woman a “Molly” without her knowing and then taking her home for sex — without her knowing. R&B has become increasingly sexualized over the last 20 years, which should be expected. Music fans are now being inundated with a generation of current stars who grew up on R. Kelly’s superfreaky come-ons like “Bump N Grind” and Jodeci’s declarations of “Freek N You” back in the 1990s.
