Wale Ft. Nicki Minaj & Juicy J -Clappers (Official Video)

While reading Hooks' "Selling Hot Pussy" I couldn't help but pay close attention to her School Daze reference with EU's "Doin' the Butt":

"The popular song, 'Doin' the Butt, fosters the promotion of a hot new dance favoring those who could most protrude their buttocks with pride and glee...the black butts on display are unruly and outrageous. They are not the still bodies of the female slave made to appear as mannequin.'"

This reference spoke to me the most because EU was one of the first go-go bands to come out and their presence evolved music in Washington, DC forever. To think that the Black Woman's Body As a Site of Exhibition birthed the culture that I was born in and have forever loved has given me more than enough to think about. Wale, an extremely famous rapper from DC who has brought attention home, sampled "Doin' the Butt" in "Clappers" as a kind of tribute to EU and all that they did for go-go back home.

What I found most interesting about this video is the disparity between seeing black girls "Doin The Butt" and the "Other" doing this dance. It reminded me of our in class conversation on Wednesday about putting Black fantasies on other bodies, i.e. Miley Cyrus. I counted 5 times that African-American women were featured in this video and 18 times that the Other women of color were featured, excluding Nicki, as she is a feature on the song.