It was always like this, but at the same time, it wasn't like this.
What happened to the days of Whitney Houston, Patti Labelle, The Supremes, Phyllis Hyman, Aretha Franklin, Lauryn Hill, Queen Latifah, MC Lyte, Missy Elliott, etc? Even when Jodeci and R. Kelly were out here appealing to the wild side of mostly Black females, a lot of Black women and Black female entertaiiners still weren't out here flashing like this. There was still a sense of class. Until the video girls and video vixens began being featured as they were shaking their asses and titties in music videos while the males promoted and egged it on during the gangsta rap era which hip hop never recovered from. Hoe rap seems like video girl + rapper = sexy female rapper who sells sex.
Hoe rap was in its infancy when the likes of
B.W.P (bytches with problems) and
Leshaun started doin it (no pun intended). But
Lil Kim (raunchy in beginning),
Trina (too raunchy),
Foxy Brown (had her hoe moments),
Khia (with her 1 hit wonder self) and nem popularized hoe rap and birthed
Nicki Minaj (ratchet). Then Nicki Minaj helped make way for really ratchet gals like
Megan The Stallion,
Cardi B (racist and cosplays as Black),
Lizzo,
City Girls,
Iggy Azalea (racist white Aussie blackfishing thot), all these damn
Dolls,
Doja Cat (the least ratchet, but still self-hating c00n) etc and ratchet ass fruti boutti boys like
Lil Nas X (Nicki Minaj stan). All this nudity damn twerking Nad punani and boots popping.No balance or room made for a Noname and a Tierra Whack.
And as talented as Jasmine Sullivan and Ari Lennox are, even these ladies are making some hoe ass songs like this:
View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZR4My3x4gY Smfh. WHY ?!!!
Meanwhile, white and non-Black artists and culture vultures like Bruno Mars, Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith, and Adele are studying us and our legends and making less vulgar music that general audiences like and can listen to with their children. Songs that can be used in commercials and shit.
Also, if Lizzo debuted in 1984 alongside Whitney Houston and her peers, fat or not, SHE WOULD BE DRESSED PROPER AND NOT BE OUT HERE LIKE A DAMN FOOL DOING ALL THE RATCHET SHIT SHE DOES IN PUBLIC PUTTING ON A DAMN RATCHET MAMMY MINSTREL SHOW.