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.

Is this Rick Ross describing rape?  It is a question to which we’ll probably never have a definitive answer, but the question being raised is enough to surround Rick Ross with inevitable controversy, which has run so rampant there are activists calling him to be dropped from Reebok’s marketing roster.  The lyric, which can be found on Ross’ featured verse on Rocko’s latest single, which ironically enough has made him as relevant as he’s been since his 2007 hit “Umma Do Me”.  Ross has done everything he can to discredit the fact that he was talking about forcing himself onto unwilling female participants, claiming that, “it was a misunderstanding with a lyric, a misinterpretation where the term rape wasn’t used”.  Its a half-hearted rebuttal at best, especially considering he’s a major player in a genre where interpretation is the name of the game, and understanding the different contexts in which lyrics can be taken is the responsibility of the artist.  He did, however, continue on to state he would never condone rape, nobody he’s associated with would every condone rape, and seemed genuinely worried about the fact that those lyrics have adapted such a negative connotation.  The sincerest of apologies might not be enough to make Ultraviolet, the women’s activist group intent on having the MMG headmaster stripped of all his endorsements, back off of Ross, or their online petition.

 

 

-Khari Nixon (@KingVanGogh)