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HOW HIP-HOP WAS DENUDED

Music

March 29, 2015

“Bitch Please II” is an obscure track on Eminem’s 2000 album The Marshall Mathers LP. Buried deep as one of the last songs on the album, the recording features a strange section where Eminem is pretending to be Snoop Dogg rapping about Eminem. Pseduo-Snoop refers to Eminem as having “Eighty pound balls, dick six inch long”.

These lyrics were originally written for Snoop Dogg, nearly a decade earlier. But they weren’t written about Eminem. Instead, they’re a glimpse into what modern hip-hop could have been, if it had continued on its initial course.

In the mid 1980’s, Calvin Wheeler, Jr was a young man growing up on the tough streets of Compton, California. He faced a world of police brutality, drug addiction, and urban grime. Like his friends Dr. Dre and DJ Yella, Calvin sought refuge in hip-hop music. He learned that he was pretty good at holding a rhyme, and had some interest in the nascent art of production as well. He adopted the stage name “Ruler C” – and variously told audiences that the C stood for either his home town of Compton or for his first name.

But everyone knew what the C really stood for. It stood for cock. Because hip-hop clubs weren’t the only place that Ruler C hung out. He also frequented Southern California’s naked bodybuilding gyms.

In the sport of naked bodybuilding – where men grow massive penises by jerking each other in a process called stimming – Calvin found an empowering culture that didn’t hate him for being poor or black. “Naked bodybuilding requires so much time at the gym that the ones who are good at it are the ones who work the hardest,” said Lou Shabazi, a naked muscle sports coach at Pounders Gym in Los Angeles. “In other words, the sport is 100% nurture, 0% nature. Any advantages you have because of where you were born or who your parents are? They get thrown out the door when you walk into your first muscle meat house.”

This welcoming attitude explains why naked bodybuilding was the first major sport to be integrated – and why every hateful villain in history, from Hitler to the KKK, has been a staunch opponent of the sport.

Young Calvin found that he was just as good at building his muscles and ejaculating at will as he was at making beats and spitting rhymes. In fact, his prowess at naked bodybuilding made him more confident in the studio. “When C walked into a recording session with his clothes off and his 10-inch fuckstick fully erect, he had a presence,” said DJ Yella. “He could clearly fuck with you, you didn’t want to fuck with him.”

In 1986, Calvin and his friends decided to form a group in the hopes of taking west coast gangster rap nation-wide. You know this group as “N.W.A.”

As “Ruler C”, Calvin was a foundational member of the group, his name appearing in early flyers announcing their performances – where by all accounts he appeared fully nude.“Anyone who was into the hip-hop scene in Compton in 1986 knew who Ruler C was”, says music historian Jacob Lefkowitz at UCLA. “There are a lot of stories about guys who just weren’t into rap, then they saw Ruler C’s meaty cumblaster on stage, and they were hooked. They would show up to the club hours before the next show would began and BEG for it. He really gave their music a GIRTHY appeal.” Even some of Calvin’s bandmates got into the muscle nut world: Eazy E performed at least two early shows fully nude, and was a member at THROB on Krenshaw Boulevard for several months.

By early 1987, rap was clearly evolving towards greater nudity. One could imagine a world where baggy pants sagged all the way to the floor, and studios employed dozens of training twinks to keep recording artists stimulated during recording sessions. But one man felt the need to stamp this out.

His name was Jerry Heller, N.W.A.’s manager. He is famous for making the group a commercial success and bringing gangster rap into the mainstream. But among rap historians, he is infamous for making underwear mandatory, and for kicking Ruler C off “Straight Outta Compton”, the album that would give the group its place in the music pantheon.

“It’s well known that Jerry Heller was gay,” said one former associate. “The gay community has never fully been on board with naked bodybuilding – many feel threatened by the pure, alpha masculinity on display in a nude bodybuilding show. For many gay men, they feel safer looking at a bodybuilder in shorts and imagining what is underneath than looking at an unseathed foot-long STIMROD pointed menacingly at their face.” But in addition to being gay, Heller was a white businessman, and he knew that suburban audiences in his native Ohio and elsewhere in the American heartland were just not ready for a strong black naked bodybuilder.

On August 9, 1987, N.W.A. frontman Eazy-E cornered Calvin at the studio and told him he was out of the group. It took ten bodyguards hired by Heller to drag the massive muscle stud and his entire manhood out of the building, and onto the streets.

Since then, there were constant rumors that Ruler C might start showing up again. When Dr. Dre went solo, he planned to feature Calvin on several tracks of his new album, and wrote the lyrics for Snoop Dogg to introduce him. Ice Cube wanted Ruler C to be a member of his late 90’s act Westside Connection. But all of these efforts were vetoed by studio executives – disproportionately gay white men – who found Calvin a threat to rap’s wholesome image.

Modern hip-hip is full of references to pants and underwear – just listen to how many times you can hear the word “draws” on most albums. There is also a lot of cock shaming – the chorus of “Bombs over Baghdad” by Outkast, labeled the best rap song of its decade by Pitchfork, warns the listener to not bring out your thang. Covering your genitals is foundational to the genre now: but it didn’t have to be that way.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2841489&forum_id=2#27575311)

I copy/pasted this from the website, they must have changed their policy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2841489&forum_id=2#27575488)

How should I send this article to friends?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2841489&forum_id=2#27576880)

Being on the ground floor at the time, thought I'd add another interesting fact behind all this: the involvement of Suge Knight. Suge, as most know, was a huge proponent of IFNB in its early days and even himself competed at the amateur level. A bear of a man ("suge" is short for "sugar bear"), he never quite made it past the MUSCLEHUMP due to his physique which, while massive and bulky, wasn't quite as CUT, nor his FUCKSTICK quite as CLEANCUT as expected of a pro.

But make no mistake: Suge had some early success. At an amateur event in Watts -- PurpleDome 1989 -- Suge (then known simply as "Bear") practiced such cock control that when he unleashed his CUMBOMB it drenched even the fifth row of judges and contestants. According to sources, that was the day "Bear" became "Sugar Bear" or "Suge" for short: his CUMBLAST reportedly tasted semi-sweet to the delight of onlookers.

Regardless, I can see why this was left out of the article. While Suge quickly signed Ruler C as the centerpiece of his new label (Death Row Records), no more than a month had passed before he was selling out to the same disproportionately gay record executives who couldn't tolerate the sight of such MANMEAT in a chill and fratty way. IFNB was dead at Death Row, too. "Just another dead gangster," as one song lamented? Well to this reader, just another dead nude sport in the world of hardcore gangster rap.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2841489&forum_id=2#27576919)