Rick Ross Fake Apologizes For That Date Rape Lyric (Again)

Carl Williott | April 4, 2013 12:53 pm
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Look, it’s pretty ridiculous to waste your time and brain energy on being offended by hip-hop lyrics in this day and age. We’ve weathered the likes of DMX, Eminem and Tyler, the Creator at this point. The genre’s most “shocking” depictions of violence and myriad evils are cartoonish in the same way the blood spurts were in Kill Bill. And it’s perhaps even more ridiculous to get offended when a particularly odious line comes from Rick Ross, because his entire music career is based on a fictional persona, and nary a word in his lyrics is tethered to the real world in any manner whatsoever.

However! Once Rick Ross The Real Person speaks in public and displays a complete and stubborn misunderstanding of rape, then it’s time to be offended. To quickly get you up to speed: Rozay had a verse on Rocko‘s “U.O.N.E.O.” that included the line, “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.” Which is, yeah, repulsive, but see above. To clear the air after a growing outcry over the line, Ross said, “It was a misunderstanding with a lyric, a misinterpretation where the term ‘rape’ wasn’t used.” That’s a pretty troubling non-apology! Then today (April 4), he stuck to his story, tweeting: “I don’t condone rape. Apologies for the #lyric interpreted as rape.” The classic “you just didn’t ‘get’ it” non-apology.

After having a few days to reflect on the whole controversy, only to come back with the same flawed logic, that demonstrates Ross doesn’t understand that date rape = rape, and that there’s a whole spectrum, a whole universe of forms of that horrific, repugnant act beyond just the “stereotypical” violent rape. So, yeah, commence outrage. Below is Rozay’s latest “apology.”

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