Thursday, October 8, 2009
Music news Aisha Sekhmet's 'You the White Man's Bitch' attacks rap's status quo
Posted by Rodney Carmichael @Rappin_Rodney on Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 5:48 PM
Not since N.W.A. dropped "Fuck the Police" 20 years ago has hip-hop sounded this defiant, this jaw-dropping, this groundbreaking.
Yes, Atlanta resident/New Orleans transplant Aisha Sekhmet's song "You the White Man's Bitch" is as radical as the title suggests. Her primary target isn't "the man," however, but the morally corrupt generation of rappers that have turned self-degradation and misogyny into their own capitalistic come-up — all the while justifying the means with their ever-increasing ends.
It's in direct response to Memphis rapper Yo Gotti's song, "Five Star Bitch," — his term of endearment for a top-shelf female companion. Sehkmet jacks his club bounce beat and twists his premise into her own profanity-laced, anti-white supremacist diatribe targeted at black men (and women) who've assimilated to the point of self-hatred.
In effect, she's labeling them race traitors. Uncle Toms. House niggers.
There's a message in her madness, but it's not wrapped in the kind of out-of-touch, high-minded language that's kept many politically-conscious MCs preaching to the choir in recent years. In fact, many enlightened rap heads have already found beef with Sekhmet — a former stripper who admits to being "a product of the streets." Her lyrics are riddled with as many contradictions as she heaps upon her adversaries. But as raw and racially-charged as she is on the mic, there's an abrupt honesty in Sekhmet's delivery that hasn't been heard in rap since "keepin' it real" went way wrong.
Since her video hit WorldStarHipHop.com a week ago, it's garnered over 150,000 views. It even got Atlanta-based activist Kalonji Changa's attention, so he decided to conduct the first interview with Sekhmet.
Kalonji: What made you record and release this song and what’s your target audience?Aisha: I recorded that song because I felt a burning anger when I heard Yo Gotti's song Five Star Bitch. I felt in my spirit that he wrote that song to get a female audience to support him, and he had to call them bitches in the process. My target audience is anyone who can learn something valuable from my message.
Back in August, CL covered the debut of Food, Clothes & Shelter: The Street Album, the hip-hop compilation released by Changa's FTP Movement. The double-disc CD is Changa's and FTP's attempt to bridge the gap between progressive hip-hop and the hood. But even he admits much of Sekhmet's content can be a hard pill to swallow. It's kinda like meeting Malcolm X in the middle of his radical jail-house transformation from the brain-dead pimp/street hustler Detroit Red to the eventual revolutionary leader El-Hajj Malik Shabazz.
Sekhmet ironically evokes X's name in the song's intro when she hollers: "You know I'm lookin' for a real nigga like Malcolm X."
Confused?
As Sekhmet told Changa, she's only feeding the horse the way it eats:
Aisha: I'm a product of the streets. The Black Men and Women in the Hip Hop community refer to a real nigga as a man that has his shit together, someone that isn't a deadbeat daddy, someone intelligent, etc. etc. That's all I meant. The streets know what I meant. And I give honor to our ancestor Malcolm X for being a real nigga and dying for us!
On one hand, it's refreshing to hear a black female MC respond to the overuse of the word "bitch" in rap by snapping back rather than wearing it as a badge of honor the way such standard-bearers as Lil Kim, Foxy Brown and Trina have infamously attempted to do, while successfully ho'ing themselves out in the process. And Sekhmet's certainly more ballsy than the whole shebang of male MCs who've ever gotten high (and rich) off shitting on women.
Still, I doubt if any of that will earn her a spot on Oprah's couch anytime soon — unless, of course, Sekhmet's sociopolitical sound-off can bank the kind of Benjamins that finally made Jay-Z Ms. Winfrey's favorite rapper.
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do i have to be white to think this garbage isn't worth reporting on?
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Miss Aisha Sehkmet is the truth, too bad Officer Nigel Brown fka Kalonji Jama Changa the A-rab worshiping pig of white supremacy interviewed her, she is wise enough to smell this opportunist. -Black Power
This is definitely one of the best diss-records to ever come out in my opinion. LL Cool J vs. Cool Moe Dee, Boogie Down Production vs. MC Shan, Notorious BIG vs. Tupac and Jay-Z vs. Nas were all covered by the media and will forever remain important events in hip-hop. This song is a battle-rap... there ain't an MC on this planet who hasn't had to pack one at some point... ask Will Smith. What makes this one a classic to me is that, she used Yo Gotti's music, manhood and ignorance to work against him. When you listen to the other songs that Aisha's done, it's clear that this isn't how she normally kicks it. She doesn't make ignorant music. But sometimes you gotta step outside of yourself to put somebody else in their place.
interesting article. Rap when we talking about Black people. Hip-hop when we working with jews to sell music to white folks and globally. When she raps about the jews that she trying to get a record deal and stop rocking that star of David, I'm with her. but I ain't falling for the Public Enemy financed by jews and we fighting against white folks why they make all the money and we end up wiht Flavor Flav. Been there, done that.
Both Islam(arabs) and Judaism's (jews) people robbed Africa and enslaved African people. What did you expect from the interviewer? That's deep - hip-hop when working with jews.
Seems like the interviewer is the white mans bitch. A-rab worshiper? Condemned by Atlanta activists? What's up.
This Lesbian Bitch is outta control, and whoevers backing her are in for a rude awakening.
hotep!!! sister Aisha Sekhmet... this is famaa-k fakoli min of information sankore african study circle and all i have 2 say is... queen we need u and more positive, defiant african queens in our orginization. you r a inspiration 2 me, i respect u 2 the fullest!!! these niggaz r some whitemans bitches expose them!!! check out my myspace page www.myspace.com/jroll187 click on my song fake azz niggaz(industry diss) and you will hear your boy going hard on these whiteman bitches in the industry. hotep!!! fakoli
Aisha the truth. The hip hop game consist of brain dead rappers who are only rapping about the same shit that was being said 10 years ago....clothes, money, hoes, cars, etc. Basically they are corporate slaves doing what the industry wants them to hence the term "white mans bitch".... Aisha is like a Breath of Fresh air! Real hip hop at its finest. Go Aisha the game been needing you.
Right on,Sistah! That's what I'm talk about. Hell yeah, talk about the black shit. Black power!
Fist of all, I ain't got nothing to say to them peckerwoood,but I got alot to say about you uncle tom negros. Let us be AFRICANS IN PEACE, MOTHER FUCKERS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk68dCUQjzE…
thank goodness for Tyler the Creator though right?
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