Blame it on holiday boredom, but Twitter is skewing Big Boi on the Bar-B today over a meme that he posted criticizing the quality of motherhood these days.
As half of the legendary rap duo Outkast, Big Boi has never shied away from sharing his views on scandalous and shady women. From 1996’s “Jazzy Belle” to UGK’s 2007 hit “International Players Anthem” Big has let it be known that there are certain ones that men should watch out for.
But in 2016 it’s not his lyrics that are causing an uproar, it’s his Instagram posts.
Early Sunday morning Big Boi posted this meme.
The post features the “Florida Evans” character from popular 1970’s sitcom Good Times on the left, and a random woman in a peculiar pose in front of her child on the right. While Big is not the first to post this meme, he is perhaps the most high-profile Instagram user to. So naturally, when he posts it, more eyes see it. And with that comes plenty of opinions. So many that he has become a trending topic on Twitter.
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Reactions like these prove either one of two things.
1.) These people have NEVER listened to a Big Boi verse, or Outkast song outside of “B.O.B.”
2.) These people should be sleeping in on the holiday.
On “Jazze Belle” both Big and Dre rapped about women behaving like the naked woman in the meme becoming the “future mamas of our children.” Absent fathers are equally responsible for “what’s wrong with these kids,” and some Twitter users have mentioned that fact, and the irony that there is no father present in the photo either. But since we live in very literal world where the absence of the word “some” [in this case “some mothers”] is assumed to mean “all,” reactions like this aren’t too surprising.
What do you think of the meme and the backlash? Does Big Boi have a point or is he participating in “respectability politics?”
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