This goes back to a previous post I did on a self-proclaimed "ho anthem" that took the world by storm last month. My assertion that the video stood as a certain class of PSA has now been widely confirmed by this newly released clip called "Memphis Blac and Smokahontas Jones Kickin Real Shit Discussing "Got Dat Work" video." Now, I don't know why everyone was so surly in the youtube comments, because I thought this video was an amazingly anthropological perspective on a social custom that has been going on, as Smokahontas aptly notes, "since before was Jesus was born." Okay, so there are some curse words (she probably said the words 'bitch' and 'nigger' 500 times...each), and their record office isn't all mod-ed out and shit. They are wearing clothes that are appropriate for the Miami heat....and the skinny one is blowing giant condom balloons. So....this may not be the classiest essay I've ever heard, but knowledge comes from all places. I mean, Smokahontas is dishing it out college-style, cursing badder than a sailor, making global references, smoking weed, talking a mile a minute, and frickin' rhyming...as in, her freestyle is so natural, when she preaches the beat comes to her...all at the same time. It's a work of genius. And if you can actually get your brain to motor along at the same speed as her mouth, you will find the weight of an African bull elephant's worth of insightful eloquence that might not ever have seemed possible. Seriously, this chick should come give a lecture in some of my anthropology classes. We talk about the same thing but with so much less...spunk.
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