Forgivable Blackness: Videos Blogged - Riskay

I blogged about this over on my site, and I also wrote about it for my gig over at The Daily Fix. But I think that it merits further study. First, let's get you caught up.



0:00-0:20
As an Isaac Hayes fan, I'm not averse to hearing a long verbal intro to a song. But this one isn't particularly inspired. Run of the mill, Rikki Lake stuff. But, it does set up that you're about to hear another "somebody done somebody wrong song." Also, just hearing a woman berate a man like this just makes me feel sorry for the poor sap who's got to come home to this. You're bringing me down, Riskay.


0:20-0:28
And we're off.

0:36
Again. And again.

O:55
Yes. That is a fat man wearing a Snickers jacket.

1:12
OK, I'm from North Carolina. I'm pretty familiar with country. But I've never heard the phrase "dirty-foot bitches" in my life.

1:31
"Don't fuck hers and try to fuck mine." I don't know if I've ever heard a woman refer to her vagina with that particular pronoun before.

2:15
We get to hear the guy's perspective now. This saves us from having to hear the annoying answer record, "Let Me Dick Yo Smell." He promptly threatens to punch her in the eye. So, he's a fat guy who wears Snickers jackets, enjoys bottle service with strippers, comes home late and threatens to assault his girlfriend. Nice catch you've got there, Riskay. To be fair, she did threaten to shoot him earlier in the song. I'm sure these crazy kids will work it out.

2:53
Ladies. Do not try this at home. If you throw your boyfriend's iPhone off the balcony, you'll be the next thing going over the railing.

3:12
Now she's pouring bleach all over his clothes. That's real close to Left Eye Lopez territory. Kind of a downer end to an upbeat song. It's like when Sharon Stone gets all drugged out and pathetic in Casino. That's usually when I turn it off.

Here I could wax poetic about how this kind of lowest common denominator music is eroding our once-proud Black people from the inside out. Or, I could take the opposite tact and paint Riskay as a profane, feminist genius who's song slaps America in the face and kicks a completely sexist genre right in the balls. Neither of those is even close to being true. The truth is, she's an underground Florida rapper who recorded a silly, catchy song with a shocking lyric. Bounce to this.

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