The backlash against the
Rapper is more about a fear of Black female sexuality rather than an expression of feminism
Cardi B this week came under
fire after sheltering her toddler daughter from explicitly sexual
music. The Bronx-raised rapper was dancing to her own song, WAP – decried for its sexually explicit lyrics - when her two-year-old, Kulture, came into the room. In a video now widely circulated, Cardi can be seen panicking and turning the song off – which led to cries of: “If your daughter can’t hear it why make the song period.”
We should have known, when the song was first released that people would take issue because it openly celebrates female pleasure. One
Republican candidate running for
Senate called the track: “What happens when children are raised without God”.