Rich Homie Quan has had to issue a statement outlining his views on rape, after a song leaked in which he appeared to be boasting about sexual assault.
On the track I Made It, by Young Thug, Quan took a verse in which he rapped: ““I don’t want your ho, just want that cookie from her / She tried to resist so I took it from her / How are you gonna tell me no? / You must not know who I am.” The track first leaked in December, but came to wider attention earlier this week with another, more widespread leak.
“I Made It was never intended to be released,” Quan said. “The song was not lyrically what I wanted to say and was not completed. Without my knowledge, there was a studio leak of the recording. I apologize that it’s out; and I have asked my lawyer to pursue a cease and desist on the song immediately. To be clear, I would never condone rape.”
The incident echoes the case of Rick Ross, who in 2013 contributed a verse that appeared to be about date rape to the song U.O.E.N.O., by MC Rocko. “Put molly all in her champagne, she ain’t even know it,” Ross rapped. “I took her home and I enjoyed that, she ain’t even know it.”
Ross also issued a statement, but it didn’t satisfy his many critics. “I know I’m a man, but I respect Women to the utmost,” he said in a statement he issued. “And Things like Date Rape shouldn’t be glorified…with that being said, I don’t think taking Rap lyrics as straight facts is ever the way to go … In reality some people Do these things, And Shouldn’t it be brought to light so young Women can protect themselves?!?! This Is actually really good the conversation is going … Ross has actually helped to protect Our Women from the Creeps that would hurt them!!!!” That was followed by a tweet: ““I dont condone rape. Apologies for the #lyric interpreted as rape.”
Ross’s lyric, and his hamfisted apology, cost him his sponsorship from Reebok, which expressed its disappointment that “he has yet to display an understanding of the seriousness of this issue or an appropriate level of remorse”.
