Rap’s Toxic Femininity: Kali’s Appearance on the Hip Hop Scene

Over the decades, the male dominated genre of hip hop has produced males (not men) who have contributed to toxic masculinity. But what about the women who advance toxicity from a female’s position?

Rapper Kali continues the trend of women oversexualizing themselvee in their art. Like chess pieces, women can boast about more moves than the king but like in life, the man is the most important piece in the world.

The Atlanta based artist who actually hails from multiple states shows her ability to display sexiness, lewdness, and a mind focused on money. She has positioned herself to be the strong musician she wants to be. As the number one artist she strives for, she envisions through “tunnel vision” the chance to make an impact.

But it comes at a cost. She has to use profanity and look like an exotic dancer just to gain clout.

While she has a decent flow and some redeeming ideas, Kali shows that she is the next of her heroines Missy Elliot, Aaliyah, and Nicki Minaj.

In order to grab the attention of both female and male and the LGBTQIA+, today’s femcees feel the need to be crude in their musical offerings.

They didn’t start that way. Over a time of consuming movies and music and video games, they take all of that in and then regurgitate it. Kali’s no different. She brings to the fore an explicit array of songs. Now, some would say this is a woman reclaiming her role as a sex object. But isn’t she and others just perpetuating the thought that women are beneath men, and not just in the bedroom?

Kali describes herself as “Toxic Chocolate.” That is an apt title for her latest effort. She sounds confident, sure, and true. In her songs, she weaponizes sex to support her own psyche. In her mind, she is pulling the strings, but what happens when those very strings become entangled? She finds herself at the bottom of a genre of complete filth.

While bodies are mounting in rappers’ deaths, the response is to be even more raunchy, disgusting, and improper. Like animals, they just mate and hunt and repeat the cycle.

Hip hop has become a cesspool for considering just the lowest common denominator. Gone are the days of Queen Latifah’s “U.N.I.T.Y.” That mode of thinking in the female MC mind now is “will this bang in the clubs and strip joints?”

What ought to be targeted are the executives and gatekeepers who know that they’re going to get paid off of the nastiness of the songs made. There’s respect for anyone who wants to turn a coin but the ones who stand against the stream should be applauded for their courageous effort.

While women in America especially should say whatever the hell they want and wear anything that is permissible, they should be able to boldly state that they will bring consciousness and reason, individualism, and capitalism.

Why are all these women trying to make it like this? It’s more than money. It’s the contradiction that exists. While most to all of the women rappers raps are about explicit sex and acts of lewdness, if you ask them if they believe in God, they’ll say yes.

Everything they do is in complete opposition to the Word of the Lord, and they want to flash their titties and shake their ass on stage despite being believers. And if they say they’re spiritual, they actually don’t know about the philosophical implications that that concept entails.

For Kila and her lot, she is only denigrating the genre which is far from its cultural roots. As rap slips lower and lower on the rungs of an art form, it’s time for femcees to take up the ability to think.