What is it about?
Lewis encourages a theoretical expansion in studies of popular culture that allows us to better understand Lil Wayne’s recent commitment to occupying a pro-cunnilingus stance in his raps. More specifically, Lewis explores what happens when hip hop maintains and even increases its popularity by challenging dominant representations of Black womanhood.
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Why is it important?
Lil Wayne offers a unique vantage point for this kind of study because of the way he prioritizes women’s orgasms vis-à-vis oral sex. In this way, he occupies a unique kind of oppositionality—one that consistently resists the silencing of Black women’s sexual desire and pleasure.
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When situated as a direct response—albeit implicit—to women rappers’ steadfast allegiance to their own sexual pleasure and desire, this text helps us understand how Lil Wayne has recently begun to redefine hip hop’s sexual politics in ways that allow broader possibilities for the empowerment and affirmation of women.
Dr. Heidi R. Lewis
Colorado College
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This page is a summary of: Let Me Just Taste You: Lil Wayne and Rap's Politics of Cunnilingus, The Journal of Popular Culture, April 2016, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/jpcu.12400.
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