Her ‘matter of fact’ sense of sexuality pops up elsewhere on the album. This doesn’t feel sexualised, more that this is just what she sleeps in. In the opening moments of her ‘ Try Me‘ video we see Dej rise from her bed in her bra. Despite all the hype around ‘ Anaconda‘ the only time people cared about the project was when the video was released, not the song itself.ĭej Loaf doesn’t combat this or give into this in any way. Compare that with her ‘ Anaconda‘ video and it’s obvious where she went wrong. The song is so strong any attempts to distract from it just feel out-of-place. This is interesting because her butt is the least interesting part of this video. Out of nowhere there will be a shot of her butt for absolutely no reason, she doesn’t even seem to be aware of it, which also makes it creepy. Secondly the video spends a good amount of time focused on her butt. What’s notable about the video is the fact that firstly, the video is absolutely terrible and the ‘director’ hopefully didn’t work again. She was every much a woman as any of the models in Wayne’s videos, just with a tonne of talent. She didn’t feel the need to wear a large hoody to be taken seriously. She also wasn’t afraid to show that she was a woman. The word play, the confidence, everything was perfect.
Firstly Nicki’s performance on the track was easily stronger than the original and she ran rings around Lil Wayne. The ‘ Go Hard‘ video was pretty much everything that was exciting about Nicki Minaj. Which is fine by itself but where male rappers can sexually objectify women and still earn respect as a rapper, women discussing sex in a similar way become the objects. But not actual discussions about sexuality, but more porno raps. To combat this, some of the more popular female rappers focus less on skill level and song writing and more on hyper sexuality. They all discuss the same topics, so gender is rarely an issue.
There’s zero proof that women don’t rap just as well as men and there are many occasions, such as Nicki Minaj on ‘Monster’, Lil Kim on ‘Quiet Storm’ and anytime Lauryn Hill is rapping, where they do it better. When people say things like ‘(person) is the best female rapper’, it’s kind of a ridiculous statement. What’s most interesting about Dej Loaf is the fact that she’s a female rapper but on her own terms. Add Dej’s almost child like voice which she uses to talk about everything from romance to revenge the two are the perfect combination. He couples this with trap drums and a tonne of bass creating the perfect mesh of light and heavy. His music is lighthearted and wouldn’t sound out-of-place in a Disney musical. His instrumentals are the natural progression to the wave of post R&B started by Kanye (on 808’s And Heartbreak) and popularised by Drake. Well it just so happens her mixtape ‘ Sell Sole‘, released at the end of last year, was a surprisingly strong debut and proof that she is the female rapper the world needs right now.įirstly a decent amount of credit should go to producer DDS.
There have always been rappers who come out with a song that dominates the summer and then disappear when the follow-up fails to live up to the hype and it’s fair to say that no one would’ve been surprised if the same happened to Dej Loaf. Female rapper Dej Loaf started to gain attention during the back-end of summer last year when Drake tweeted support for her single ‘ Try Me‘ and Wiz Khalifa hopped on the remix.
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