p.i.m.p. era
as a kid, there was only one person i looked up to: Hugh Hefner. i wanted to be him when i grew up. he’s such a pimp! bein around girls all the time even at his age, that’s the life i wanted. that’s the messages we get and the images we see. that’s how manhood is measured. in conquests. shades of repeated history. women as property. it’s bigger than hip-hop. it’s pointing fingers at others as well as myself.
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These days people casually use pimp to
Describe anything cool or desirable
“Pimp juice”
“Pimp my ride”
Or according to Nelly, “P.I.M.P.” stands for
Positive Intellectual Motivated Person
This coming from a guy who swipes credit cards down a woman’s behind
The P word is 1 of 3 words I’ll never use
Along with the N and the B word cuz
Its association with exploitation of women is readily apparent and only reinforces male domination
Kids see too many grown men act like lil’ boys
30 year old teenagers playing with jewelry, fancy cars, and women like toys
Corrupting young minds should be a goddamn crime!
They lose purity before even reaching puberty
Today’s rappers have become modern-day house slaves
promoting capitalism while claiming they’re “hood”
Thinking they’re pimps when they’re being pimped
Slave mentality manifesting as material lust
Doing anything for a couple of bucks
Boasting how they shoot and stab
Their outlook extends as far as they can grab
got a label but still eat crumbs off the floor
Since the massa won’t give him a seat at the table
now
Tap dancing change to dancing for chicken
Black pimps change to white CEO pimps
Black face white men change to black face Black men
After criminalizing rappers,
White execs capitalize the very same image
Living out their sick fantasies
they approve and package
Degrading images, ignorant messages,
and misogynistic songs for your consumption
Bombarding us with reality TV series
Portraying women as superficial hos
While men
Continually hold the main or dominant roles
the more rights women have
The more they’re being sexualized
Little 7 year old girls wearing “I’m hot” t-shirts love watching “Memoirs of a Geisha” but never heard of Yuri Kochiyama
They see movies depicting Selma Hayek as a sex object but never seen her as Frida
How do you explain to girls coming of age that the
1st Black Actress ever to receive an oscar earned it
By getting pushed, pulled, and fucked by a white man
That’s why I walk this rarely traveled path
To dismiss superficial and purely physical attraction
Moving to a more human approach
Seeing women for who they are
A person!
Instead of stripping their humanity and
Turning them into sex objects
Solely to alleviate insatiable sexual desires
I reject male’s common belief of entitlement to sex
Seeing women as my equal
This ain’t some conceptual trip
I practice what I preach
And I’d be lying if I say looks don’t matter
More than anything, I yearn for connection
Show affection by staring into each other’s eyes
Feel the overwhelming love without uttering
A single word
© pathanapong pathanadilok 2006
