Tip Drill (song)
| "Tip Drill (E.I. Remix)" | |
|---|---|
| Single by Nelly featuring the St. Lunatics | |
| from the album Da Derrty Versions: The Reinvention | |
| Released | 2003 |
| Format | digital download |
| Genre | Hip-hop |
| Length | 6:23 |
| Writer(s) | St. Lunatics |
"Tip Drill" is the name of a 2003 song by Nelly. It was used as a remix of the song "E.I." featuring the St. Lunatics and produced by David Banner. The music video became controversial for its overt depiction of women as sexual objects.[1] It was meant to be a single, but withdrawn due to its potentially offensive content.[citation needed]
According to Mark Anthony Neal, the phrase tip drill is a "ghetto colloquialism for the proverbial ugly girl with a nice body."[2]
[edit] Controversy
In 2004 students at Spelman College protested against misogyny in rap music and Tip Drill specifically. The students criticized the negative portrayal and sexual objectification of African American women in the video which showed women in bikinis dancing and simulating various sexual acts, men throwing money at women's private parts, and a man swiping a credit card through a woman's butt.[3][4] Nelly's 4Sho4Kids Foundation was scheduled to hold a bone marrow drive on campus to help his sister who suffered from leukemia. The president of the Student Government, Asha Jennings, said: "Nelly wants us to help his sister, but he's degrading hundreds of us."[2] According to Spelman students, Nelly's foundation refused to hold the drive unless the university promised that students would not confront the rap star about his song and the video.[5] The foundation canceled the drive.
Nelly stated that his own daughter never saw the video.[6]
[edit] References
- ^ "US hip-hop film sparks debate on masculinity". Reuters. February 21, 2007. http://www.reuters.com/article/filmNews/idUSN2017076720070220.
- ^ a b "Female students spurn Nelly over explicit rap video", The Houston Chronicle, April 25, 2004.
- ^ "Nelly feels the heat", The Chicago Tribune, April 02, 2005.
- ^ Arce, Rose. "Hip-hop portrayal of women protested", CNN, March 04, 2005.
- ^ Watkins, Samuel Craig. Hip Hop Matters: Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement. Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-80-700986-4, pp. 217-218.
- ^ "Nelly - It's called adult entertainment", The Independent, July 25, 2008.
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