Outrage Growing As Petition Demanding Rawse to Be Dropped From Reebok Started By Women's Group
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Rick Ross appears to have crossed a line that no amount of explaining or apologizing will bring him back from.
In a new song titled “U.O.E.N.O.” with rappers Rocko and Future, the MMG CEO seems to advocate ? .
“Put molly all in her champagne / She ain’t even know it / I took her home and I enjoyed that / She ain’t even know it," Ross raps in the song.
The fallout from the insensitive lyrics has reached a fever pitch as one women's rights group is demanding that Reebok drop the rapper from his endorsement deal with the company.
Nita Chaudhury, co-founder of anti-sexism group UltraViolet, started a petition that as of Friday had gathered 51,000 signatures according to Billboard.
The petition reads:
"His lyrics aren't vague, he's not hinting that he ? a woman--he's clearly and proudly saying that he drugged and ? a woman who was not capable of consent.
By holding Rick Ross up as something to aspire to, Reebok is sending the message that ? a woman is cool--and that's a dangerous message to send the boys and young men that Reebok markets to. This is what ? culture is.
Reebok needs to know that we won't stand for this. Will you sign the petition telling Reebok that ? is NEVER okay and they should drop Rick Ross right away?
Tell Reebok:
Rewarding a man who brags about ? women sends a dangerous message. Rick Ross' lyrics about drugging and ? a woman are offensive and outrageous, and Reebok should drop him as a spokesperson immediately."
Nita Chaudhury
“Reebok devotes a lot of time, energy and money to marketing to women," Chaudhury said.
Rose Clemente, a hip hop activist, journalist and 2008 Green Party candidate for Vice President, released a YouTube video on Monday speaking out against Ross' lyrics.
"That is the brilliant Rick Ross in all his glory. Not only has he been problematic for years, but if you didn't hear [the song] let me go back to my computer real quick," Clemente says, before playing Ross' portion of the song. "This is disgusting to say the least. This lyric is obviously promoting ? . Not just ? , but ? and ? culture and violence against women. We live in a society that, by the time that African American women and Latina women are 18, almost half of them -- 44 percent -- have been sexually abused."
Muskegon, Michigan non-profit community station 103.7 the Beat/WUVS-LP, announced that it will no longer play any of Ross' music because of the song.
“Following that teen ? case in Ohio, we felt [Rick Ross] was very insensitive. It sends the wrong message out to the youth that’s following him,” Paul Allen Billings, general manager/program director of the station, told Billboard. “To promote a ? drug in a song, it’s like saying its OK to do this behavior. He’s saying it’s acceptable.”
The YouTube channel FemGeniuses has released two videos condemning Ross.
"Sex without consent is ? . That's something we know. It's a shame that you don't," is the prevailing theme of the videos, in which various men and women voice their opinion on the matter.
There are currently at least four separate petitions on Change.org calling for either a public apology from Ross or to have the song pulled from airplay.
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When will these ugly hoes ever stop making petitions. Also, these hoes probably never wore reebok in their life.
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"Dese hoes tryna hol' me back"
Prophetic words from Rozay -
ROFLMAO! YMCMBMMG!
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I wonder why women havent done the porn industry that degrades women worse than the words that Rick Ross they claimed he said like this???
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All the violence that rappers rap about in there songs why now do they try to take action on a line about ? ?
So ? >>>> Talking about selling drugs and murdering people now?
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I don't think they ever been happy about rappers talking about murder but that's something that's usually reserved for the most seedy environment out of the view of everyday America. ? is a little too close to home for many females in general. That ? is not gonna fly.
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"? hoes. ? hoes. You just a ? hoe, until ya gimme ? hoe"
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Man, ? these fat ass, hypocritical hoes knowing damn well they be up in the club pissy ? and twerking it to whatever song that's playing, even a Rozay track....these feminist slobs are just as bad as the Rainbow Coalition, the Jews and PETA
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A WHOLE lot of hate in this thread. And females don't listen to rap because its not made for us and when it is its u typical sappy ass love song.
More females wear Reebok than dudes that I know so yea he should be pulled. And maybe ppl will think about what they say. -
These ? should link up with GDs and whoride on this imposter.
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wtf is "? culture" been seein that make believe term thrown around a lot lately and why reebok
and what "teen ? case in ohio" the ? that got to do wit rocko song gettin airplay in michigan, america so lame
and ? all that "black and latino women get ? more often" ? , ? more often than who? the golden white woman, thats how they keep our minds ? up wit them fake ass statistics -
Truth is that 1/3's of women in America have been sexually abused. So u can't just talk about ? like that.
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None of the broads in any of them videos is remotely fuckable...
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Gen. Stasia wrote: »A WHOLE lot of hate in this thread. And females don't listen to rap because its not made for us and when it is its u typical sappy ass love song.
More females wear Reebok than dudes that I know so yea he should be pulled. And maybe ppl will think about what they say.Gen. Stasia wrote: »Truth is that 1/3's of women in America have been sexually abused. So u can't just talk about ? like that.
Shut the ? up fat ? .
No one has sexually abused you... or touched you period.
You wish someone would put a molly in your drink. -
Gen. Stasia wrote: »A WHOLE lot of hate in this thread. And females don't listen to rap because its not made for us and when it is its u typical sappy ass love song.
More females wear Reebok than dudes that I know so yea he should be pulled. And maybe ppl will think about what they say.Gen. Stasia wrote: »Truth is that 1/3's of women in America have been sexually abused. So u can't just talk about ? like that.
Shut the ? up fat ? .
No one has sexually abused you... or touched you period.
You wish someone would put a molly in your drink.
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Gen. Stasia wrote: »A WHOLE lot of hate in this thread. And females don't listen to rap because its not made for us and when it is its u typical sappy ass love song.
More females wear Reebok than dudes that I know so yea he should be pulled. And maybe ppl will think about what they say.Gen. Stasia wrote: »Truth is that 1/3's of women in America have been sexually abused. So u can't just talk about ? like that.
Shut the ? up fat ? .
No one has sexually abused you... or touched you period.
You wish someone would put a molly in your drink.
Ain't u from the backwoods where ? and ? is the norm? Uncivilized ppl always say corny ? .
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Gen. Stasia wrote: »A WHOLE lot of hate in this thread. And females don't listen to rap because its not made for us and when it is its u typical sappy ass love song.
U know very well that most popular rap appeals to women and women are the major consumers of popular rap. -
Gen. Stasia wrote: »A WHOLE lot of hate in this thread. And females don't listen to rap because its not made for us and when it is its u typical sappy ass love song.
U know very well that most popular rap appeals to women and women are the major consumers of popular rap.
Lets emphasize WOMEN and not ? or the Ratchets.
Most Women I know don't even listen to Rap like that. They listen to older R&B and maybe Older Rap. But the music they make now doesn't appeal to no one. Its just the only thing that's convenient.
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Gen. Stasia wrote: »Gen. Stasia wrote: »A WHOLE lot of hate in this thread. And females don't listen to rap because its not made for us and when it is its u typical sappy ass love song.
U know very well that most popular rap appeals to women and women are the major consumers of popular rap.
Lets emphasize WOMEN and not ? or the Ratchets.
Most Women I know don't even listen to Rap like that. They listen to older R&B and maybe Older Rap. But the music they make now doesn't appeal to no one. Its just the only thing that's convenient.
This. ? be rappin about "? " like they don't got a mama, sister or daughter. Then wanna talk about "my queens" this and that, when the most open a rapper's been to a woman in the past 5 years is making songs about taking them on shopping sprees and eatin their ? . Rap has become very one sided when it comes to gender. Even Nicki Minaj is just eye candy and entertainment for men.
This has to be seriously discussed. We are losing touch with Black women, and mistaking ? duckhead scutterbuckets as the only population of women. And not too many men take the ? culture (yes, @SwampNigga, that is a real thing) seriously enough to say something about it, as seen in this thread. Something is seriously wrong when we can laugh off a black man who supposedly knows better rapping about drugging a woman and taking advantage of her. And yes, that also applies to the drug dealing, killing, etc. -
Gen. Stasia wrote: »Truth is that 1/3's of women in America have been sexually abused. So u can't just talk about ? like that.
Lol @ this statistic. -
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are these ? petitioning from the kitchen?
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Law Trafalgar wrote: »Gen. Stasia wrote: »Truth is that 1/3's of women in America have been sexually abused. So u can't just talk about ? like that.
Lol @ this statistic.
How many females u know who have been sexually abused? I bet its more than u would like to admit.
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Not with these "petitions"to stop people's money. That aint how I operate. Havent heard this song that I know of but to me its just some more nonsense said by a rapper for shock value and attention. Been goin on since at least NWA. I tell the women around me its entertainment and aint real life. Not defendin him tho because it is what it is. But I aint for infringin on freedom of speech and censorship. Slippery slope.
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Gen. Stasia wrote: »A WHOLE lot of hate in this thread. And females don't listen to rap because its not made for us and when it is its u typical sappy ass love song.
More females wear Reebok than dudes that I know so yea he should be pulled. And maybe ppl will think about what they say.Gen. Stasia wrote: »Truth is that 1/3's of women in America have been sexually abused. So u can't just talk about ? like that.
Shut the ? up fat ? .
No one has sexually abused you... or touched you period.
You wish someone would put a molly in your drink.
Damn.