June 25th, 2009 7:58am
That Explains Why I Love College
Kid Cudi with Kanye West, Common, A-Trak and Lady Gaga “Make Her Say”
Since it is fair to assume that famous rappers do in fact get a lot of groupie action, it is also reasonable to believe that songs like this are in some way non-fictional, and the girls described in the lyrics are actual people, or at least composites of women the rappers have been with. (You know, like in New York Magazine!) So with that in mind, what do you reckon it’s like for these ladies when these sort of sex tunes come out? These guys are probably quite prolific, so is there maybe some doubt in their mind whether they are actually rapping about them? Even if you’ve done something as specific as give head to Kanye West in a college library, how do you know that’s not some fetish of his, and he’s been getting BJs in the stacks of every university on his tour route? If you’re certain that the rapper is talking about you (”YES! I was born in 1988 and Kanye boned me! It has to be me!”), do you tell everyone, or keep it as a more private source of pride? Do you get a little annoyed when Common quotes you in a somewhat unflattering way? Are you bothered by the fact that you get mentioned in a song that loops the best hooks from a Lady Gaga song built around the thinly-veiled phrase “poke her face”? Did you want something more romantic? If you’re the subject of the least-famous rapper’s verse, are you jealous of the chicks who got with the bigger names? So many questions!
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6/25/09 9:56 am
I was thinking about something similar the other day when listening to Drake’s “Best I Ever Had.” Is there one girl who knows that song is actually about her or are there a bunch of girls that think it is about them? It’s like giving an Oscar speech and saying the important people know who they are. Anyways, great post!
6/25/09 12:23 pm
Actually, they’re interpreting the song, Lady GaGa admitted that they hit the nail on the head with this song being the underlying of Pokerface months ago…
6/25/09 1:47 pm
On the other hand, there’s the Morphine song where everything drops out and Sandman says “If I am guilty / So are you / It was March 4th, 1982″.
I cannot imagine what it would be like to hear that and realize it was about you. On the other hand, sitting down to listen to the new album by a guy you had some fucked-up thing with 15 years earlier might be the sort of thing you brace yourself before doing anyway.
6/25/09 4:06 pm
“(You know, like in New York Magazine!)”
Clever.
6/26/09 3:27 am
So many questions–love the sardonic wit.
6/26/09 3:17 pm
I like the song but my girl for some reason never really did..
6/26/09 4:52 pm
Poor Polly Perkins…
7/7/09 2:39 pm
Common needs to stop rapping asap, plz, thanx.
12/15/09 2:09 am
hah. i love the song, but never really understood what was going on till now….pretty offensive i’spose…..