B y now you have likely heard about Rick Ross’ controversial lyric on once-and future-struggling rapper Rocko’s new track “U.O.E.N.O” (NSFW): "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.” Molly, of course, being a popular street drug that shares properties with what is commonly known as Ecstasy.

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I can write the script for what happens next. A number of rappers who’d rather get a feature on a Ross record than do the right thing will be awkwardly silent about the issue. The White boy rap writers who have so much to do with the relevance of Ross will remain mum as well. Outspoken advocates for women’s right-to-be-human will be outspoken. Folks will tweet “Father your sons” and find a way to blame Black single moms for the whole thing. A reminder that women buy rap records, so really, this is our entire fault anyway. And there will be the standard note that “Parents raise kids, rap does not raise kids.”

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What’s so scary about Ross’ line is that this is something that a good number of men and boys actually do. Maybe a rap lyric won’t inspire an impressionable young dude to go and try to flip a couple keys, but normalizing this sort of rape? I see it. I see it and it scares me.

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This is not just another terrible rap lyric to be dismissed. This is an important teachable moment for young men, boys and even some full-grown adults who don’t understand consent. Who don’t understand that yes, even the girl who brought the molly and the Magnums to the party can be a victim if she was not able to decide when and how they were used. THIS IS RAPE CULTURE—the global reality that was dismissed as a feminist talking point by so many men on this very site just recently.

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