I’ll take yo MAN!

If you haven’t heard the female rap group duo City Girls remake of Salt and Pepper’s hit I’ll take your man,” you may want to check it out. It’s been played all over the radio and in night clubs. The City Girls album is full of raunchy lyrics following in the footsteps of other female rappers with Miami slang. Recently The group has been under a lot of scrutiny due to group member JT being locked up for previous charges of fraud, but the worst critiques have been based on group member Yung Miami’s speech (Yet y’all calling people that commit fraud to get y’all Christmas gifts). Miami first shocked the world when she asked if people wanted to get “flewed out” instead of flown out. There were so many comments and retweets making fun of the new rapper, she made a rebuttal. This week she’s being criticized for mispronouncing a city’s name in Michigan.

People have been verbally attacking Miami. Calling her dumb an idiot and everything in between. You don’t have to agree with the rappers lyrics, like their speech or like their truths. But what everyone should be doing is respecting the fact that they come from streets of Miami and are actively trying to improve their quality of life. What really bothers me the most is that I personally don’t believe they would receive such backlash if they weren’t Black women.

Everyone loves  a chick from the hood, with freaky lyrics, that’s care free, trying to get a bag, with an accent, that doesn’t speak proper English unless that girl happens to be a BLACK GIRL,” so it seems?! I’ve heard people say that the City Girls make Black women look bad. I think that’s really a powerful yet bullshit statement to make. Black women are the most educated group in the United States and they (we) have been at the forefront of starting new businesses for the last 3-5 years! So, those facts are trumped based on others opinions of two girls from the hood of Miami making a way out of no way?”

What’s more disheartening is the fact that no one depicts the flaws of Black women more than Black men. Black women are also guilty of this too. Where is the support for Black women trying to make it out the hood? Is it only a concept that we like when it’s in a movie or book? Why are we shying away from real people trying to create and produce something real to make some money? Most girls from the hood don’t speak proper standard American English. Most people in general don’t speak proper English they just think they do.

I was unaware of that in order to be smart or intelligent you had to speak proper American standard English. If the City Girls do lack education I don’t think it’s a laughing matter. Poorly funded public schools in minority areas isn’t funny. IN fact it’s been a huge issue within Black and Latino neighborhoods all across America for years. Not liking someone for their “lack of education, knowledge, or social status” is CLASSISM plain and simple.

Every Black woman can’t be Michelle Obama or Gabrielle Union for that matter. It’s really immature and ignorant to feel that every Black woman has to speak or be a certain way. That’s unrealistic and not proper representation of Black women from different areas.

I’m tired of Black women being criticized and dragged as a whole via social media and any other social settings. The internet seems to be the playground for people that have to verbally destroy others in an effort to feel better about oneself. City Girls are an example of that American dream that has been forced down our throats. You know “pulling yourself up from your bootstraps and becoming what you want!”

If JT or Yung Miami wanted to get on any of these same men that have been slandering them the men would oblige.

Ladies they already told you “If you keep hating on them” they’ll take your man!