So I am in Club Glass in NYC this past Wednesday night. The attractive female population of the spot was of the majority. As I meet up with some friends and associates and begin my first drink, the soothing sounds of artists like Dwele and Raphael Saadiq permeate the airwaves. The DJ throws on Slum Village’s “Tainted” and there is a mild reaction. The set continues along those lines for a half hour or so, and the crowd (i.e. females) continues to stay at a pretty even keel.

BOOM! Jay-Z’s “Excuse Me Miss”(Remix) drops, and the females pop up out of their seats. Okay, that is to be expected. It’s a party song devoid of any real content other than the requisite money talk that Jay has been doing for some time now. We get a nice dose of similar songs, Freeway’s “What We Do” featuring Jay, Pharell’s “Frontin” featuring Jay, etc., etc., etc. Once again, the crowd stayed at a pretty even level of excitement.

A quick change of pace occurred when the DJ decided to drop Bonecrusher’s “Never Scared,” and I was surprised to see how positive a reaction it received in the middle of midtown Manhattan. It wasn’t quite the reactions I witnessed Memorial Day Weekend in Miami, but still notable (further proof that Clearchannel and Viacom can program people into liking anything; even uber-biased New Yorkers).

But then it happened. David Banner’s “Like A Pimp” feat. Lil Flip dropped, and the females went nuts! I couldn’t believe it! I thought I was watching the “Back Dat Azz Up” video! So as I headnodded and recited the lyrics to a song that I have been playing almost everyday for the past few months in my car’s CD changer, I realized that this song had THE MOST degrading lyrics to women of any song that had been played that night. However, it had BY FAR the best reaction from the female populous of the venue.

In a nutshell, the point of this piece is this:

The majority of the female species who listen to rap music could care less about the lyrics and their meaning.

Yes, we are all aware that there are exceptions. But what is even more interesting is the amount of times I have heard those exceptional females confess that many of those same degrading songs are often a “guilty pleasure” for them.

For all ‘nay-sayers’ reading this article, I give you this quick 10-song list off the top of my head:

“Ain’t No Fun” by Snoop Dogg ft. The Dogg Pound
“B!tches Ain’t Sh!t” by Dr. Dre ft. The Dogg Pound
“F#ck You” by Dr. Dre ft. Devin & Snoop
“F#ckin You Tonight” by The Notorious B.I.G. ft. R. Kelly
“Put It In Your Mouth” by Akinyele
“P.I.M.P.” by 50 Cent
“Nann N#gga” by Trick Daddy
“Oochie Wally” by Nas ft. The Bravehearts
“Chickenhead” by Project Pat ft. La Chat
“Ho” by Ludacris

If you play these 10 songs at a party (as well as countless others), you are GUARANTEED to have almost every female within earshot out of their seats, dancing, and singing along with every word.

I have never truly understood this phenomenon. It would seem as though these types of lyrics would anger and offend women rather than be timeless “anthems” for them. I have asked many women about this contradiction but have never gotten a definitive answer. Some of the answers I have heard:

“The beat is good.”
“As long as I can dance to it, I like it”
“I don’t listen to the words.” (Then how can you recite them all?)
“I don’t know what they are saying.”
“Who cares what the words are?”

And my personal favorite:

“When they say hoe and b!tch, they are not talking about me.”

So who are they talking about?