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Date Rape Anthem: Juelz Santana‘s “Back to the Crib,” featuring the no. 1 guy who really shouldn’t be participating in tributes to sexual assault, Chris Brown. [Thanks to Megan Thomas-Melly for the recommendation].

Relevant Lyrics:

Shorty said she wanna roll with me
I said yeah
She don’t know that we going back to the crib
She know that I’m on her
She don’t know that we going back to the crib
Back to the crib, yeah

She wanna roll with me
She wanna go with with me
But she dont know I’m tryin to take her back home with me

. . . Lil mama we can birthday text
Yes I said text
But I know you know what I really meant (sex).

Why It’s So Rapey: Here, Santana and Brown are essentially admitting that they are in the business of luring women back to their caves under false pretenses. Are you under the impression that you and Juelz are going to be engaging in some texting this evening, perhaps after rolling out of the club and on to a public second location? Guess again! You will be sexing this evening, in Juelz’s crib. You should have known what he really meant.

But Is It Good? According to the hierarchy of date-rape jams,“Back to the Crib” is one of the most dangerous odes to predatory sexual behavior out there, because goddamn if I can’t get the sweet melody of “she don’t know we goin’ back to the crib” out of my head. “The song is so catchy and of course I love it, I am meant to love it,” writes Thomas-Melly. “but the lyrics are basically about raping someone.”