It's difficult to argue with a lady who knows what she wants from front and the back. Indeed, in her pop star prime, every dude wanted a piece of Miss Jackson when she was nasty.
A made this song about a whole other kind of release. Over a dope Dr. Dre beat, the late Eazy-E drops clever Compton poetics about the neighborhood hoes' neck game.
And as with N. Nevertheless, coming at a time when female rappers MC Lyte and YoYo were trying to be as hard as the boys in the hood, BWP were pussy pioneers who told the fellas exactly what made them twitch. The Notorious B. While some might've suspected she had a thing for same-sex whoopee before she became a mom and acquired an English accent, on her disc Erotica the material girl confessed about one of her favorite fat-free meals.
White boys, jailbirds or friendly neighborhood thugs, everybody was welcome to a taste of her sticky icky. Constructed in collaboration with her homie Timberland, this song makes it clear that this Southern girl has no problem with a man who can get the job done. Forget about New Edition, because this chick is the real candy girl. Sounds like they found their calling when they shifted their focus from Christ to cunnilingus.
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At a distance, the packaged lollipops mounted in seven by eight rows appear as a cohesive set. Each sucker leans ever so slightly away from the wall with clinical precision casting an angled shadow.
Up close, the work wavers between stasis and the unfolding of an idea, like a taste forming on the tongue. As the diffuse gallery light moves through the condensed properties of melted sugar, it distorts the size, texture, and shape of each ball of hair, causing the strands to appear enlarged, optically boosted by the candied shell. As a result, How Many Licks? II comes in and out of view by way of magnification. In so doing, Jarrett presents a portrait of black magnification via complex tensions of pleasure and disgust, sweetness and bitterness, and violence and care.
Lisa Jarrett, How Many Licks? Black hair and sugar carry studied, politically-charged symbolism: the former solicits connotations of desire, beauty, and racial stigma, while the latter materializes relations of exploitation and consumption, and desire and addiction, woven through entangled histories of slavery, colonialism, and capitalism.
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