Nasty Girls
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With the recent debuts of Lil’ Kim and Foxy Brown, getting rude and lewd is no longer the exclusive province of male rappers. At any rate, considering that sex is selling better than ever, it’s surprising that it’s taken this long for a few female rappers to shed the loose-fitting unisex uniform of hip-hop and give the boys what they apparently want. The musical merits of these two rappers are negligible, but their sales figures are not: both records are in the top ten on Billboard’s R & B album chart.
The 17-year-old Brown, who threatens to spill out of a skimpy leotard on her album’s cover, engages in predictable hip-hop braggadocio by name-dropping the designers she likes; on “Foxy’s Bells,” her remake of L.L. Cool J’s “Rock the Bells,” she boasts that she “flows like CK One” and that “sooner than Chanel Foxy Brown will rock the bells.” Most often, though, she contemplates what her sexual assets can get her. On “Foxy Boogie,” she raps, “Girls we got the weapons / Niggas got to have this”; later of course “this” exacts a price. Cushioned by the silky croon of new jackers Blackstreet, “Get Me Home” is a head-versus-crotch debate on a potential sexual encounter in which the first thing Brown observes about her smooth-talking suitor is his apparent prosperity.
