Anti-gay hypocrisy from fans of Caribbean rap(e) music
In 2012, the group Onyan and the Burning Flames debuted the song “Kick een she back door” during the Antiguan carnival celebrations. This song, which starts with a woman screaming murder and then repeatedly calls for the anal rape of women, eventually went on to win the national Road March crown that year.
Amazingly, some Antiguan women vocally supported the tune, which they described as being “hot.”
The Antiguan NGO Women Against Rape (WAR) launched a public campaign against this vile melody and, ironically, the group was soundly rebuked by the female Speaker of the Antiguan House of Representatives, Mrs. D. Gisele Isaac-Arindell. The Honourable Speaker declared on a radio call-in program that there was nothing wrong with the song and it was simply being “misrepresented.”
A petition to get Antiguan radio stations to cease airing the song struggled to secure 100 signatures and all but one broadcaster ignored the request.
The track is now making appearances in carnival and crop-over celebrations across the Caribbean, where it is overwhelmingly popular.
Such support reveals the blatant hypocrisy of regional populations who happily defend a man’s right to anally rape a woman, but refuse to accept two consenting adult men engaging in any form of intimacy in the privacy of their bedroom.
Even more tragically, such support for incitement to sexual violence helps explain why, by some estimates, the Caribbean “boasts” 7 of the top 10 countries for per capita rapes.
Code Red for Gender Justice describes this truly disgusting single in the blog post “Violence Against Women Takes Road March.”
Kick Een She Back Door
This is a partial transcription of the lyrics of “Kick Een She Back Door,” courtesy of Code Red for Gender Justice: [woman screaming] [man mocking woman’s voice “murder murder, ah kill he gine kill me”]
If she front door lock and you can’t get in
And she bathroom window lock
And you can’t get in
And she bedroom window lock
And you can’t get in
And she kitchen window lock
And you can’t get inWhat to do?
Kick in she back door
Kick in she back door
What ah mean?
Kick um inAnd she bawling murder
[more screaming]I don’t really know bout you
But I know just what to do
When a woman batten down she house
Make up she mind to keep you out
You push your key to find it jam
And it in {something} in you handSo the solution to get inside
Cause she lock down she house so tight
Whether rain or shine
Morning, noon or night
Is the only way to win this fightChorus
[more screaming: “Call the police, come of mi yard, you too damn wicked”]Women does mek things real hard
Especially when they get mad
No matter how hard you try
No easy way to slip inside
So the solution to get inside
Cause she lock down she house so tight
Whether rain or sun
Morning, noon or night
Is the only way to win this fight.
Related articles
- “Kick Een She Back Door” video (YouTube)
- Sexual violence needs to be stamped out – advocate (antiguaobserver.com)
- Rick Ross – My Rap Was A Mistake. Rick Ross Regrets Rap In Official Apology To Women. (msmediacreationsite.wordpress.com)
- WAR wants ban on back door song (Antigua Observer)
Another chance for the rape ‘culture’ to continue. Women need to realise that accepting this type of music and tongue in cheek abuse does to the youth, males are taught that women are theirs to control and abuse and females are taught that violence is normal and to be expected as par for the course. How can we as a people move forward if this is our legacy?
That a female public official would think this is a song she should be defending in 2013 is sad and stupid. We have a long way to go..