
Stat Quo was aired out this week by Lauren Carter, a Boston Globe writer who he pressured for phone sex during an interview. Writes Carter:
Almost from jump, Stat started querying me about the possibility of having phone sex, repeatedly asking whether or not I use a vibrator and telling me, when I asked him where he was, that he was “in Bangladesh, bangin’ the flesh.”
After Stat got me up to speed on the sordid details of his life - including how many groupies he’d had relations with while on tour in Boston last year - I did get some answers out of him. Most were counterproductive to promoting the CD or himself. When I asked why and how he got involved with the project, his answer was “Money. Money, Lauren. Do you like money, Lauren? Do you?”
When I directed questions to Obie and Alchemist - who stayed mostly quiet during Stat’s outbursts, occasionally laughing - Stat would chime in with vulgarities, such as informing me that Alchemist was defecating while on the phone with me.
Carter shoots her story in the foot by beginning with the admittance that she supports hip-hop from rappers who degrade woman, even though it goes against her own moral standards. Like many of the female journalists I know, Carter plays the role of Conflicted Feminist, a woman who wants to stand up against misogyny in music, but is defeated by her booty, which shakes uncontrollably whenever the DJ drops a Nelly song.
Even worse, Carter ends the piece on a powerless note, having decided that a call to the record label won't change a thing. I get the feeling that she doesn't believe her printed account of the call will move people either, a strange mindset for a person to have who earns their daily bread off of making words work.
With women running media outlets like BET, Vibe, and SOHH I'm surprised they collectively let the rappers get away with many of the things they say. Let a rapper try to harrass even a small town DJ, and a boycott against his record will spread across states, word to Young Buck. Woman have that same power, but don't even know it.