The Greatest Rap Song Of All Time

When hip-hop came into existence in the early seventies, who among the pioneers and legendary rappers could have predicted that an MC from Canada would use this beautiful musical form to speak ill of women? Surely there have been rappers who have erected controversial temples of misogyny in the musical landscape in the past. Think of Eazy-E, whose testicular demands in his song "Gimme That Nut" have more than outraged the feminist community, or the notorious 2 Live Crew, whose entire oeuvre is devoted to the denigration of women, specifically with songs like "Pop That Pussy," "The Fuck Shop," and the Kubrickian "Me So Horny."

As hateful, condemning, and sexually frustrated as these anthems are, none have come closer to portraying women as purely utilitarian agents of pleasure than Jon La Joie's "Show Me Your Genitals." La Joie eschews conventional methods used by the typical rapper to woo women (cars, money, and copious amounts of Cristal), and opts instead to use his penis as his weapon of choice. La Joie is not a misogynist but rather a realist, one who understands that the sugar-coated pleasantries involved with getting a woman into bed belie the true intention boiling in the loins of men.

La Joie is definitely on to something here. His blunt approach to the opposite sex is not sheltered within social niceties and convention, his mind not clouded by delusions of something as intangible as love. He wants what he wants, and who are we to deny him the female genitalia? Maybe in Hitler's Germany or in Mussolini's Italy such a thing would be impossible, but in Google's America, anything is possible.