"P-p-poke her face"

Ho.Ly. Shit.


Um, so I’m not really a big fan of Lady Gaga’s music but I now she’s a popular gal these days and everyone seems to think she’s the next Madonna.

I had heard her song “Poker Face” before but today….today I heard a rather different version that simply uses a variation of the title and the chorus of Lady Gaga’s acoustic edition of the song.

It made me wanna barf. And punch something. Or someone. Reeeeaaaallllly hard.

I’m sure you’ll feel the same. And if you don’t. I will punch you. Reeeeaaaallllly hard.

The song is “I Poke Her Face” by Kid Cudi feat. Kanye West (surprise surprise) and someone that goes by the name of Common.


I make her say
Oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh, oh-oh-oh
When I
P-p-p-poker face
P-p-poke her face
I make her say
Oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh, oh-oh-oh
What up
P-p-p-poker face
P-p-poke her face
Me first!

She wanna have whatever she like
She can if she bring her friend
And we can have one hell of a night
Through the day
Eh, I mean staring like a creeper cause you gotta peep 'er
I mean you probably might be saying you aint jockin' either
But man, o girl got a fat ol' ass
Yeah, the type that make you tell a bitch just dance
And fuck them other niggas cause you down for her b!tches
Fuck them other niggas cause she down for the stickin'
And fuck them other niggas hope she down for some lickin'
And fuck them other b!tches
Cause she's down for the trickin' up
I'm hopin' she a rider
When its said and done
And she spit it up and swallow now
I ain't got a trip about them niggas who like her
But me and mammy know who can really make her go

Oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh, oh-oh-oh(When I)
P-p-p-poker face
P-p-poke her face
(I make her say)
Oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh, oh-oh-oh(When I)
P-p-p-poker face
P-p-poke her face

Kanye West
She said she want whatever she like
She said she gone' bring her friend
Now we gone' have a hell of a night
Through the day
I made her say
Hold up, born in 88'
How old is that? Old enough
I got seniority with the sorority
So, that explain why I love college
Gettin' brain in the library cause I love knowledge
When you use your Medulla Oblongata
And give me scoliosis until I comatoses
And do it while I sleep yeah a little osmosis
And that's my commitment you ain't gotta ask Moses
More champagne more toast'es
More damn planes, more coast'es
And fuck a bus, the Benz is parked like Rosa ....

I make her say
Oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh, oh-oh-oh
When I
P-p-p-poker face
P-p-poke her face
I make her say
Oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh, oh-oh-oh
When I
P-p-p-poker face
P-p-poke her face
I make her say

Common
She said she want whatever she like
But she gotta bring your friend
We could have a hell of a night, through the day
She blamed it on the a-a-a-a-a-alcohol
She had her hair did, it was bound to fall
Down, down for a damn, Cudi already said it
A poker face book I already read it
But man, her head was gooder than the music
electro body known to blow fuses
A stripper from the south lookin for a payday
Said bitch you should do it for the love like Ray Jay
But they say you be on that conscious tip
Get your hair right and get up on this conscious dick
I embody everything from the Gali to the party
Its the way I was raised on the south side safari, so

Oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh, oh-oh-oh
(When I)
P-p-p-poker face
P-p-poke her face
(I make her say)
Oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh, oh-oh-oh
(When I)
P-p-p-poker face
P-p-poke her face

Can't read my, can't read my
No he can't read my poker face
She's got me like nobody

Can't read my, can't read my
No he can't read my poker face
She's got me like nobody

I….I…don’t….even know where to begin…..

Right off the bat there are indications that Kid Cudi is calling dibs on being the first one to “p-p-poke her face”. Oh, but “only if she bring her friend”. Cause two girls are obviously better than one. We have learned that valuable lesson from pop culture before: men want multiple women.

“Staring like a creeper cause you gotta peep’er”? I think Kid Cudi needs to read some Schrödinger’s Rapist. And perhaps get a grammar lesson too.

I guess a woman who has a “fat ol’ ass” is the type who deserves to be called a bitch. Actually, it seems that Cudi refers to all women as “b!tches”. Disrespect at its finest. At the end of the day, all Cudi wants is his “bitch” to “stick, lick and trick”. He hopes that she’s a “rider” He wants her to “spit it up and swallow”. Sounds like Cudi wants himself a porn star or a prostitute. Well, don’t worry Cudi – that’s what our young generation of women are being trained to be so they’re on their way!

Enter Kanye. Everyone already knows you’re a douchebag Kanye but it’s been a while since you tried to trump Taylor Swift with your own oversized ego so I guess you felt like we needed to be reminded of your douchebagery.

Weird, though, how you were hating on Taylor Swift since apparently girls born in 1988 aren’t too young for you at all. “How old is that?” you ask. That would make her 22 but would you really stop to ask a girl her age when she’s “stickin, lickin, and trickin”? Methinks not you misogynistic prick.

Do you really have “seniority with the sorority” or is that just you assuming you have the right to prey on young woman because you have a penis? You love college? I bet that’s what a lot of potential rapists think, too.

Question: why is it that artists use words that rhythm but don’t actually make sense in the context of their usage? So…you want some girl to give you a blowjob in a library until you get scoliosis (a medical term for “crooked spine”) and until you become comatose? And then continue to blow you while you are in a coma? Do you even know what “osmosis” is? Again, methinks not. I think you just wanted to use a fancy word that rhymed.

Well looks like someone paid attention in history class. He makes reference to Rosa Parks. And compares her to a car. Nothin’ like a man who can turn a woman (a historical figure who people called “the mother of the freedom movement”) into an object. Degradation at it’s best.

I don’t know who this “Common” character is. I guess anyone can get a record deal these days. The only prerequisite, it seems, is that you have to degrade women or degrade yourself.

Common says this girl’s blowjobs are better than the music. Oh wait, “gooder than the music”. My bad. But atleast he’s right about something. A blowjob WOULD be better than this music. (Can we even call this music? Seriously).

It wouldn’t be a modern day mainstream song written and performed by males if it didn’t put emphasis on the female body or compare women to strippers. Remember my blog entry about strippers? How I asked, “Would you rather she do it for free?”. Common seems to think so – he would tell her: “bitch you should do it for the love”. Ah yes, because ALL strippers LOVE being strippers. They love getting naked for the entertainment of men. They don’t have any negative feelings on the subject what.so.ever.

It’s alright, though. This stripper will “get up on that (his) conscious dick” because he embodies everything that a southern boy should.

It is obvious that this “female” they are discussing, degrading, and dehumanizing in their lyrics is one that is being shared by all 3 men. They keep referring back to what the person prior to them had noted (“Cudi already said it”).

Being a white woman, I feel kind of nervous talking about race and pointing the finger at black men who are affecting black culture. I get it. I’m not black so how dare I say anything about how black men are affecting other black people. But this type of music has an affect on ALL cultures and all races and all genders. It is music like this that creates and perpetuates the stereotypes of a race or group of people. No, you do not speak for everyone. But the fact that you are a person in the media – a person that people listen to and sometimes look up to and emulate – you are somewhat of a representative for your race and gender. Just like how Katy Perry is a representative of a white woman in her 20s – Kanye, Kid Cudi, and Common are spokesmen for young black males and males in general.

I think bell hooks says it best (well obviously she does because she is a writer and I am not) when, in her article "Sexism and Misogyny:Who Takes the Rap? Misogyny, gangsta rap, and The Piano" , she says:

Without a doubt black males, young and old, must be held politically accountable for their sexism. Yet this critique must always be contextualized or we risk making it appear that the behaviors this thinking supports and condones,--rape, male violence against women, etc.-- is a black male thing. And this is what is happening. Young black males are forced to take the "heat" for encouraging, via their music, the hatred of and violence against women that is a central core of patriarchy.

We cannot point the finger at black men. We have to point the finger at all men. Men in general. It’s not because they are black that they think this way about women – it’s because they, along with men from every other race in existence, have witnessed this since day one.

Race and gender are like Siamese twins. They are connected. And it is really difficult to separate them.

And it’s really difficult to fathom why people listen to this kind of bullshit music – women included.