4.25.2011

Song 33: Your Revolution, Sarah Jones

Sisters are doing it for themselves. Salt-N-Pepa and Queen Latifah are feminists and rappers who easily could have made this Top 100. But the best critiques of sexism and the patriarchy in rap music is from Sarah Jones. She turns Gil Scott Heron's The Revolution Will Not Be Televised into "Your Revolution will not happen between these thighs".

Warning: the  Federal Communications Commission declared this song INDECENT. Although they later reversed their decision, writing, "the most graphic phrase ('six foot blow job machine') was not repeated," and "We take cognizance of the fact presented in this record that Ms. Jones has been asked to perform the song at high school assemblies." It may offend some guys out there.

Check out The Strange Case of Sarah Jones from the Free Expression Policy Project.