*I hate having to be a hater, but I’ll probably sound like one in about 10 seconds flat.
I couldn’t help but put on my “what the hayell” boots when I heard that Jay-Z has decided that he will ban the word “b*tch” from his songs, out of respect for his new daughter, Princess Baby Jesus….I mean Blue Ivy Carter.
After building a multi-million dollar empire on the back of female degradation, Jay-Z has decided to soften up after giving birth to a little girl. The births of millions of other precious little black girls apparently meant nothing to Jay-Z, as he’s never had a problem letting us know that he has “99 problems, but a b*tch ain’t one.” So, all the other children NOT named Blue Ivy Carter weren’t even in the top 100 on Jay-Z’s distorted, dysfunctional priority list – but now he’s suddenly found religion.
You can’t spend two decades referring to other men’s daughters as b*tches and hoes, and then somehow decide that your own daughter is going to be exempt from the game. You, my brother, have given nearly every inch of your creative productivity toward murdering your daughter’s self and public image before she was even born. In other words, you brought Blue Ivy Carter into a world where most of your biggest fans will look at her and refer to her not as daddy’s little princess, but instead as a dirty little b*tch. I fact, they will even get paid for it.
Jay-Z trying to ban the word b*tch after giving birth to a girl is like a mass murderer asking other killers to be nice to his relatives. His music has helped to infect the world with the virus of misogyny, and now he wants to act like the Center for Disease Control. He’s like the homophobic pastor who leads anti-gay lynch mobs and later finds out that his own son is gay. It’s actually quite funny if you think about it.
Perhaps Jay-Z will now learn the frustrations of millions of other fathers who’ve been long hurt that so many hip-hop artists have trained black men to show the utmost disrespect for their little girls. He will know what it’s like to have a “tatted up” Jay-Z/Lil Wayne wannabe earn his daughter’s loyalty because he convinces her that she can’t do any better. He will spend the remainder of his years reaping everything he’s spent his life sowing, and end up paying the piper handsomely after getting rich by teaching other men to hate his child.
Welcome to the real world Jigga. While it might seem unfair that a loving father is having his seemingly honorable action so directly criticized by people like me, the fact is that life’s a b*tch. I got 99 problems, and Jay-Z’s ego ain’t one; he should have done this over 20 years ago.
Dr. Boyce Watkins is a Professor at Syracuse University and founder of the Your Black World Coalition. To have Dr. Boyce commentary delivered to your email, please click here.
Speak on it!!!!!!
I agree with Dr Boyce, Jay should of eliminated the word a long time ago however, he is not the only one to use the word almost every rapper sues it and a few other choice words also, lately some r&b artists have used the word in their songs so, other artist will still use the word and continue to degrade the young women who listen to them.
PREACH!!
Well said Dr!! Its sad that it takes the birth of a child for a seeminly intelligent man to notice the obvious. His music and the music of thousands of other rappers have turned our young women into bitches. Now he wants to undo the web he’s begun, its too late Z! But I am glad you finally woke up.
I bet you that if michael had not covered up his kids for the world to see they would be doing it who knows
I just new this was going to happen his going to be so soft now I wonder if he is going to stop using the N word too dont he have a son.
Boyce your conclusion here is just as stupid as Jay-z’s decision to no longer use b*itch.
In what song have you ever heard a child referred to (even indirectly) as a b*itch?
The stupidity in Jay’s case is that he decided to stop using the word not after getting married, but when you have a child who would never be referred to as a bytch.
And for this dumb ass author/Dr. to even think it’s appropriate to write “dirty little bytch” in reference to a child shows how utterly shameless you are. It’s a child…a newborn in fact and you think that referring to a newborn as a B*tch deserves kudos? Puhleeze.
If Mr .Carter stated as such.. it’s a bit to late.. because first of all.. Mr. Carter has a mother and most likely female relatives.. and a WIFE..
I don’t know if Mr. Carter stopped using perverse slang(b*tch) in his lyrics.. after he married Beyounce.
If Mr. Carter didn’t state as such noted by the author.. the author is out of line..
Nope, jay used the b- word on the watch the throne cd that came out last year. Kay & Beyonce have been married for several years.
Makes sense now that he has two bitches in the household!
I personally don’t care that some think it’s too little too late. I subscribe to the “better late than never. I have 13 granddaughters and some of them are under ten years old and maybe when they are able to choose the type of music they want to listen to it will be music relevant to them and they won’t hear the word “bitch” nor will they see women shaking their behinds half either.
So what it took him this long to realize his mistake he owned up to it. He who is without sin…y’all know the rest of the saying.
Now if we can get women to stop answering to this derogatory term and calling each other this…..well one battle at a time. Sigh!
Say it ain’t so Jay? Oh well, WOMEN ON THIS SITE STILL CALL OTHER WOMEN BITCHES ALL OF THE TIME.
That’s a step for Jay-Z, but how about the fact that his latest song “N***as” in Paris” recently hit # 1 on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Thanks Jay-Z & Kanye West for having the distinction of being the only artists in the history of recorded music to put the N-word not only at the top the the R&B/Hip-Hop chart, but the top 10 ot the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart. This will forever be marked in history…and just in time for Dr. King’s holiday too. Can’t people use the word “brother” instead of the “N-word”? Shame on the media for not hammering this issue to our artists who have the world’s ear.
Uhmmm… Well Jay-Z have a history of making hits with the N word.
Wasn’t his first hit “Ain’t no N***a” with Foxy Brown?
I don’t know. They say if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Dr. what if God told you that you cant get into heaven because you waited too long to repent or change. what you wrote is totally against what Jesus teaches.
Jay Z may be a wealthy song writer ( don’t know of anything of his I would listen to) and he may be married to Beyonce and they have lots of money but his use of the B word and the N word don’t, and never have, gone over big with me. I’m not impressed with his work, or ohers who “speak” the same kind of language and I don’t see any talent there ’cause he doesn’t sing. Anyone can speak words in rhyme to music. Yes, he is way too late in dropping the word from his “music” and he needs to drop all the others that make his type of Rap distasteful to so many. I’m sure he and his wife have artistic differences, but I would have insisted he drop the words long before now. She’s a bimbo if she continues to support this kind of language in his “music”. Look at all the othre artists who refrain from using such language who do Rap. And as for the baby’s name…..Blue Ivy…..sounds like a name for a race horse to me! Poor child. What are these parents thinking about when they name their children?
“you brought Blue Ivy Carter into a world where most of your biggest fans will look at her and refer to her not as daddy’s little princess, but instead as a dirty little b*tch.” Really??? Like, forreal? You heard it here first, Dr. Boyce Watkins is on drugs.
I wonder what he calls the woman who carried him around in her body for nine months??? Now, if this ignorant hypocrite could just do something about THE “N” WORD …