Results for “hypermasculine sexual conquest”

Songs

Close Your Eyes (And Count to F**k)

Run the Jewels

A high-velocity posse cut where El-P and Killer Mike trade verses of violent bravado, prison-abolitionist rage, and sexual…

mass incarceration and prison abolition institutional hypocrisy (church, courts, police) hypermasculine bravado and sexual conquest

Bout It Bout It

Freddie Gibbs

A street-rap posse-cut style track built around repeated assertions of authenticity and hustle, cycling through boasts about…

loyalty and crew solidarity hustling/drug dealing paranoia and self-protection

Gangsta Luv

Snoop Dogg

A slow-rolling G-funk seduction track built around a single boast-and-hook structure: Snoop cycles through sexual conquest…

sexual conquest masculine bravado material excess

I'm That Type of N***a

The Pharcyde

A posse-cut style boast track from The Pharcyde's early catalog, built around a call-and-response taunt asking who's in charge,…

braggadocio masculine posturing hip-hop lineage and skill claims

Whole Lotta Love

Led Zeppelin

A blues-rock boast built almost entirely on sexual innuendo and repetition, where the lyric functions less as narrative than as…

sexual conquest desire and excess masculine bravado

I Take What I Want

Ann Peebles

A declaration of sexual and emotional appetite delivered without apology, this song is Ann Peebles claiming the traditionally…

female desire and agency self-possession pursuit and conquest

Dragon Attack

Queen

A groove-driven, riff-heavy jam built more on sensation than sense, "Dragon Attack" trades narrative for pure sonic and sexual…

sexual conquest altered perception surrender to instinct

Hoochie Coochie Man

Steppenwolf

This is Steppenwolf's cover of the Muddy Waters/Willie Dixon blues standard, retooled as a hard-rock strut rather than a Chicago…

masculine bravado folk magic and superstition predestination/fate

Let Me Ride

Dr. Dre

A West Coast G-funk cruising anthem that stitches together threats of violence, sexual boasting, and neighborhood pride into a…

street violence and retaliation gangsta identity and reputation Los Angeles car culture

Politician Man

Betty Davis

A raw funk vamp that turns the language of politics into an extended sexual come-on, with Davis playing a swaggering seductress…

sexual power and control satire of political rhetoric female sexual agency

Ice Cream

Raekwon

A boastful, extended riff built entirely on the ice-cream-flavor-as-woman conceit, "Ice Cream" catalogs women by racial and…

sexual conquest as commodity racial/ethnic typology materialism and status display

Drop It Like It's Hot

Snoop Dogg

A minimalist club track built on a single triple-word command that gets reinterpreted verse to verse, moving between seduction,…

status and wealth display sexual conquest street/gang loyalty

Nasty Girl

The Notorious B.I.G.

This posthumous 'duet' track stitches archival Biggie verses with a Diddy guest turn and a Jagged Edge hook into a…

sexual conquest materialism and status posthumous branding

Pneumonia

Danny Brown

Pneumonia is a hard, boastful posse-cut-style track from Atrocity Exhibition that trades in rapid-fire flexing about money,…

excess and indulgence hustler bravado sexual conquest

MVP

Big L

A boast track built entirely on the sports-as-rap-game conceit, with Big L stacking claims about lyrical dominance, street…

braggadocio lyrical supremacy street credibility

Rat Bat Blue

Deep Purple

A hard-rock strut through a one-night pickup that curdles into dismissal, built more for Jon Lord's organ pyrotechnics than for…

macho posturing casual sexual conquest dismissal and contempt

I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times)

Jamie xx

This Jamie xx track builds a euphoric, sample-driven dance anthem around a simple mantra of anticipated joy, then hands the mic…

anticipation and collective release hedonism and excess class and hustle

Dry Spell

Kacey Musgraves

A comic, unapologetically horny country song about a woman counting off the days since her last sexual encounter, using rural…

sexual frustration female desire and agency rural/country signifiers as innuendo

Built For Comfort

Howlin’ Wolf

A big man's boastful self-defense turns into an easy, unhurried seduction. Howlin' Wolf takes what could be an insult about his…

self-acceptance masculine boasting sexuality and endurance

Sixteen Blue

The Replacements

A quiet, unglamorous portrait of teenage isolation, framed around confusion about sexuality and identity. Instead of anthemic…

adolescent alienation sexual confusion loneliness

Rockin' Daddy

Howlin’ Wolf

A boastful, sexually charged blues in which the singer claims mastery over both the physical act of "rocking" a partner and the…

sexual bravado transactional relationships masculine reputation

Magic Man

Heart

A young woman narrates her seduction by an older, magnetic man, tracing her passage from girlhood to sexual awakening over the…

sexual awakening loss of innocence maternal anxiety

We Run This

Missy Elliott

A brash, party-floor anthem in which Missy Elliott asserts sexual and regional dominance in equal measure, treating braggadocio…

sexual assertiveness regional pride/unity self-mythologizing braggadocio

Candy Man

Mississippi John Hurt

A rollicking Piedmont blues built entirely on a single, transparent sexual double entendre. Mississippi John Hurt uses the…

sexual innuendo folk humor itinerant male desirability

Down Home Girl

Betty Davis

A raw, funk-driven declaration of Southern Black identity that fuses food, sex, and soul music into a single unapologetic…

Southern Black identity sexual assertiveness reclamation of stereotype

Talkin Trash

Betty Davis

Betty Davis turns dirty talk into a call-and-response ritual, offering total sexual and emotional surrender in exchange for…

sexual liberation dominance and submission performance of desire

King of Carrot Flowers, Pt. 1

Neutral Milk Hotel

An opening track that fuses childhood memory with domestic violence and adolescent sexual awakening, all delivered in a run-on,…

childhood innocence and its loss domestic dysfunction sexual awakening

Immigrant Song

Led Zeppelin

A short, blunt battle-cry sung from the perspective of Viking raiders sailing west, framed less as narrative than as invocation.…

conquest and invasion myth and legend masculine bravado

I've Got What It Takes, But It Breaks My Heart to Give It Away

Bessie Smith

A comic blues built on a pun: the singer boasts she has 'what it takes' — desirability, sex appeal, and money — but refuses to…

financial independence female self-sufficiency sexual innuendo

Headsprung

LL Cool J

A Timbaland-produced club record built around a single hook-word that fuses sexual boasting with dance-floor physicality. LL…

nightlife excess sexual bravado status and wealth display

Golden Gal

Animal Collective

A song built around a half-real, half-mediated female icon glimpsed through screens and reviews, with the narrator working out…

celebrity and mediated desire gender and sexuality fandom as devotion

Oh My Darling Don't Cry

Run the Jewels

A two-verse trade-off between El-P and Killer Mike that functions as pure sonic swagger and threat display, dressed up in…

defiance of authority hypermasculine bravado self-mythologizing

Been Down So Long

The Doors

A straight blues workout built on a single inverted-fortune boast, this track uses the twelve-bar form's repetition to turn…

confinement and release blues tradition/lineage sexual demand

Rock Me Baby

B.B. King

A twelve-bar blues built almost entirely on a single sexual metaphor, this is B.B. King working the oldest trick in the blues…

sexual desire longing and satiation blues tradition and formula

Nasty Gal

Betty Davis

Betty Davis takes the insults an ex has thrown at her -- witch, alley cat, dirty dog -- and turns them into a badge of honor,…

sexual autonomy reclaiming slurs female desire vs. respectability

Childs Play

SZA

SZA uses the imagery of childhood games—Barbies, video games, playground toys—to talk about growing into a sexual and emotional…

coming of age sexual awakening nostalgia

Work It

Missy Elliott

Missy Elliott's signature single is a maximalist celebration of sexual confidence and self-invention, built on a literal sonic…

sexual agency self-invention and reinvention female solidarity and hustle

Indian Girl (An Adult Story)

Slick Rick

This is a raunchy, cartoonish narrative told in Slick Rick's signature storytelling style, built around a parody of the Davy…

seduction and conquest toxic masculinity as comedy cultural stereotyping

5:15

The Who

A disoriented young man rides a commuter train while his mind fractures into fragments of memory, sexual anxiety, and social…

dissociation and identity collapse adolescent sexuality and shame class and Englishness

One Minute Man

Missy Elliott

A blunt, funny complaint about sexual inadequacy turned into a dance-floor demand, with Missy Elliott setting terms for a lover…

female sexual agency mockery of male inadequacy desire and demand