
Fetty Wap has multiple anthems about putting his lady on a pedestal, including a song about spending QT with his trap queen while cooking crack. But is he a feminist?
MC Lyte says yes. Itâs weird, but not totally far offâand definitely up for debate. At the White House Councilâs Women & Girls summit on Friday, Lyte participated in a panel called Hip-Hop: Womenâs Vulnerability and Voices. When asked whether itâs possible to be a âhip-hop feministâ (of course it is), MC Lyte referenced Fetty Wap and said:
âHe may have a very unique way of presenting his ideas, but he does love women. For what heâs up against in this climate with all of the other emcees, heâs taking a stand. Heâs being pretty courageous right now with what it is that he presents in his music, because itâs really not the norm...You win the challenge when youâre able to get your message across without degrading your sister, or your woman or your mother.â
Simply loving women isnât the totality of feminism, of course, but others have half-jokingly labeled Fetty Wap a feminist because of the ride-or-die nature of his trap songs, typically dedicated to one woman in particular.
Whatever the other grimy circumstances in his songs may be, his biggest songs are all pro-bae: âTrap Queen,â âAgainâ and âMy Way,â in which he threatens any dude who tries to disrespect his woman. Itâs not hard to imagine him crooning Joeâs âAll the Things Your Man Wonât Doâ at home.
The next logical step is for Fetty to make an anthem advocating equal pay, which I wouldnât put past him. Watch Lyte big him up (and talk Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole) in the clip below.
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