lilla namo - haffa guzz

right so sometimes i write about songs with a clear intention to segue into a subject i wish to write about and this is going to be one of those, but for formalities sake i'll start off in a usual manner. this one is a song that blew up during the summer and was one of the big club bangers. i really like this song for it's beat and catchy nature and that it's a good song in general.

it's done by swedish/kurdish poet and rapper namo marouf aka lilla namo (little namo) and produced by swedish producing-duo up to no good. the latter is responsible for hits such as newkid's "turbulens" & toffer's "nattbuss". "haffa guzz" is a bassy uptempo hiphop cut and talks about how if marouf was a guy, she would have picked up girls all the time. she goes on and poses all sorts of examples on how she would pull these women.

my second or third reaction to this song was, when is a swedish rapper going to flip the concept. basically in the same bragadoccio style and say that if he was a girl, he would have picked up guys all the time and in such and such manner. i even posed a question/challenge on twitter for anyone to do it since i know of countless rappers that will do their own version of hit/other peoples songs for mixtapes or whatever.

another reason i also thought of that is because how come it, more or less, always has to be the female playing this roleplay within a lyrical/musical context. i'm maybe forgotten about some substantial art, within mainstream popular culture mind you, but i haven't heard of anyone recently playing the female role in a sincere fashion. the problem would be the pitfalls of doing it would be having a part of your fanbase questioning you or their sexuality or not coming off as someone confirming gender roles to a fucking t.

the latter happened in 2008 when beyoncé knowles released "if i were a boy" that questioned roles and responsibilities as humans and genders. for the record i really don't like this song, not for it's message but because it's musically uninteresting. it's also a bit constrained in it's execution but most people really understood what it was about.

i say most people as r. kelly really missed the point when he decided to do a remix for the song where he answers beyoncé.his response was plain condescending dounchebaggery in verses, ad libs and wailings that made you understand that r. kelly would never understand what it'd be in some other shoes.

this example is exactly i think is going to happen if the wrong person flips "haffa guzz" into probably "haffa dude". there is also the latent homophobic angle where you will have the wrong person whip out something like "no homo" or "pause" or "i'm really unconformable with thinking about other guys penises" in every verse or such.

note before anyone says there is this, that and that other one when it comes in gender roleplay within music, yes i am well aware of that there is. however it is mentioning that in ancient times all objectification in arts where mostly of male character, like it would really make up for the full on objectification of women in modern media. now that we got that sidetrack out of our way, i love this song and had fun to it in the clubs and danced to it plenty of times. lilla namo has proper talent and i seriously hope her follow up will be equally awesome.

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