Booty Booty Booty Booty Rockin' Everywhere

So one of the sites that I frequent is called Cracked.com. This site, updated daily, is a humor site. Every day there are three new articles or videos, or a combination of the two. One of the relatively recent articles (December 31st, 2009).

The author of the article, "Seanbaby", looks at popular songs of the recent years (more specifically hip-hop songs) and has a mathematical formula (somewhat simple, with interesting stipulations) to determine the amount of booty in each song.

The rules for his interpretation are as followed (As found on this article's page)

Booty Per Second Booty Rules
1. The song has to be serious. It’s OK if it seems silly to you, but the artists who wrote and performed the song had to be completely sincere about wanting your ass to shake or be placed on his or her mouth.
2. All synonyms for booty such as rump or junk are acceptable. This is obviously a bit clouded by metaphoric interpretation, so all results should be considered to have a variation of ± .05 Booty Per Second.
3. Always brake for monster booty.
4. The word “it” does not count, even if “it” is clearly referring to a butt. For example, in the Backstreet Boys’ hit, “I Want It That Way.” Or in the end of this sentence: Ha ha suck it, Backstreet Boys.

Now personally, I find this whole website hilarious at many times, despite their seemingly overt heterosexism and sexism. While I would never argue that this site is NOT either, at most times, it is (depending on the author) done tastefully. (Side note: I will say that not all of the authors of the site come off this way, for there are some articles and authors that show great support for feminism and the LGBTQ movement, back to the blog).

The number 1 "winning" song is:

"The Booty Call" by Bass-n-Effect coming it at a whopping .45 Bootys per second!

So what exactly does this mean? It seems to mean that society (or at least Hip-Hop) is absolutely obsessed with the female butt. Part of this, I feel, relates directly to the amount of African-American artists in that group. Almost all of the artists listed there (group artists) are exclusively African-American. The exception is the Black Eyed Peas, but even that is primarily African-American.

This most likely stems from the hyper-masculinity that has arisen in the African-American community. From early in the U.S. History (dated back to colonization and slavery), Africans (and even now to a point African-Americans) are seen as hyper-sexual beings. Apparently, any man (or any race, ethnicity, or national origin) should strive to get "booty" (in all meanings of the word), but more specifically, female booty. Hah! As if that was the case...

Aside from my fair amount of research into this topic (I wrote a paper last semester on the hyper-sexuality of the African-American community), I see this just about every day living in the Residence Halls here on campus or even going to class. There is this notion (that goes beyond the African-American community) that all men should be doing is having sex with women. Just listen in on any given conversation between two "men" (I put that in quotes for very specific reasons, take a guess?) and see how often they are talking about women. You may find the results rather interesting.