Why I love WAP

“Yeah, you f*cking with some wet a** p**sy
Bring a bucket and a mop for this wet a** p**sy
Give me everything you got for this wet a** p**sy

Beat it up, n****, catch a charge
Extra large and extra hard
Put this p**sy right in your face
Swipe your nose like a credit card”

Chances are, you’ve heard the song WAP. Despite hardly ever listening to rap, I absolutely love this song because of the social implications and reactions that came from it.

The lyrics are, for lack of better words, bold. And they brought a storm of criticism, as people called it vulgar, concerning, and disgusting. But why?

The lyrics of WAP are just as explicit, and use the same language, as nearly every other rap song. When Chief Keef rapped the line, “You ain’t gonna let me f*ck you and I feel you / But you gone suck my d*ck, or I’ll kill you,” did the internet blow up? When Eminem released a song with the line, “Sl*t, you think I won’t choke no wh*re / Til the vocal cords don’t work in her throat no more?” Was there any outrage? No.

So what makes WAP different? The fact that it was written by two women, taking ownership of their own sexuality. Much of the criticism surrouding the lyrics of WAP, claim that it normalizes the objectification of women. So when male rappers objectify women, degrading them in their lyrics yet having them naked and twerking in music videos, no one bats an eye. Yet when two women own their sexuality and take back their sexual power, it’s “vile,” “crude,” and “sets women back in time.” What I’ve gathered from the reaction to WAP is that women can be sex objects when men want them to, but not when they they want and choose to be. Smells like…misogyny. And what’s especially sad is that it comes from both men and women.

What I’ve understood from the world’s reaction to WAP is that we as a society still have a looooong way to go. It goes to show that a lot of people still don’t understand that men aren’t the only ones who hold sexual power, and that women don’t need their validation to take control of their own bodies.

Anyways… Alexa, stream WAP.