Worst Role Model Alive!

I went to a DMV barbecue Saturday. Imagine every stereotype about it's employees, add outdoors & food, &, Boom!, you're there with me. You're welcome.

There was music of course, & now that I'm in recovery (1 year, 4 months & 1 day), shit is especially clear to me. So, I was noticing the abundance of Young Money artists (namely Drake & Lil Wayne) blaring in the background. Maybe it was the speakers, maybe it was the fact that I seem to be the resident babysitter everywhere I go, but I'll be damned if this dude Wayne isn't the most vulgar rapper in the game right now.

Allow me to reiterate; there's nothing wrong with social cursing. Hell, my son does it (& I think it's hi-larry-us), but once you get so graphic with your exploits that you wouldn't play it for your grandmother, children shouldn't be within earshot range of so much obscenity either.

Now, not only was our isolated corner of the park flooded with kids under 14 years of age, but the 9 & up crowd, boys & girls, were doing all the latest dances to Lil Wayne's various descriptions of what he'll do/has done to "pussy". Sans corniness, I was appalled. I couldn't believe that A) these "parents" would allow me, a stranger, to oversee their kids while they got fat & drunk & B) they had that music playing so loud for so long.

Eleventeen year olds doing the 'Reject' to "I wanna fuck every girl" = EPIC FAIL.

Some of these girls, still months away from their first visit from Aunt Flo(w), were singing right along with the dude. At this point, I'm realizing how much Wayne is manufacturing these girls to accept, no, expect themselves to be mere playthings of men; manipulated & tossed aside for the next lucky chap to wipe his genitilia with. The girls were singing his songs, & all the boys were dressed just like him. & although a picture's worth a thousand words, I'm hard pressed to find 950 more words that equate to "ridiculous".

Really though. I was the only parent who saw a flaw in the DJ's attempt at keeping the function cracking. & I'm sure these kids know all the same douche nozzle, trivial trivia about Wayne as I do; The babies, the drugs, the condoning of violence, the total disregard for womankind, & yet, they adhered to his music, unexplicibly. Last year, he was the best rapper alive. Now, he's the worst role model ever.

I've more/less considered myself a casual fan of Wayne's music over the years. I've witnessed flashes of brilliance, I've seen signs of retardation. But, this Drake-flavored second wind he's campaigning right now is Ugh, to the nth degree (yeah, "nth", look it up). I can't co-sign him anymore, simply based off the fact that, judging by his words, he'd try to bone my daughter then kill me if given the chance. No Dice. That syrup & coke has officially turned this cat into a zombie.

I try not to take Rap music too seriously, but, I'll make an exception on this one.