An Abridged Aural History of Oral Sex in Hip-Hop.

When Jhene Aiko nonchalantly stated that all prospective partners must, “eat the booty like groceries,” this, among other such odes to tongue-centric activities signaled that it was seemingly shaping up to be the year of unabashed annilingus. Aiko is of course not the first and certainly won’t be the last artist to lyrically ponder what dat mouf do.

 However, it is interesting to observe how sexuality and what sexual practices are deemed acceptable has evolved in hip-hop over the past two decades.

Throughout the ‘90s it seemed that many male rappers weren’t quite ready to cop to being “cunning linguists.”  In fact, quite a few lyrically decried the practice, but were nevertheless completely down for fellatio.

 Taking into account this mentality (which of course doesn’t apply to every artist), it’s not a stretch to say that many of them would have been even less inclined to consider the recent “booty eating” craze as acceptable. Since inception,  hip-hop has often been characterized by aggrandized hyper-masculinity, and has also been repeatedly taken to task (and perhaps unfairly generalized) for being homophobic. 

It’s possible that the topic of annilingus, though sometimes broached, wasn’t as readily embraced because hip-hop was still fairly young in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s. Perhaps publicly admitting to such activities ran the risk of being perceived as borderline homoerotic, even if it occurred with a woman.

Source Highnobiety.com