I Would Die 4 U by Touré

Author:Touré
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atria Books

White America has long viewed Black sexuality with fear and fascination, certain that Blacks are better endowed and more sexual and having more sex and having it with more abandon. This is not a comment on Black biology or the Black cultural approach to sex, but a comment on white America’s perception of those things. In Nobody Knows My Name, James Baldwin famously wrote, “To be an American Negro male is to be a kind of walking phallic symbol: which means that one pays, in one’s own personality, for the sexual insecurity of others.” During slavery, the image of the uncontrollable, animalistic Black buck who wanted to defile the pristine white woman was used to keep America afraid of and in control of Black people. The imagery remains, if only in the collective subconscious.

“Black male sexuality is always going to be a threat in America,” Questlove said. “And Prince came along at the right time. America still had post-Mandingo dreams, no matter how it looked. Which really weren’t getting met by Michael Jackson. I remember a lot of interviews when Prince started catching on where they asked people, ‘Why do you like Prince?’ and they said, ‘Well, Michael Jackson’s cool, but Prince gives us more sex.’ He knows you draw more bees with honey than with vinegar.”

White America’s love of Black popular culture has often been wrapped up in its electric attraction to Black sexuality. But rarely has Black sexuality been presented in such a raw, rough, wild, carnally dangerous, bigendered form as it was in the body and persona of Prince. You knew for certain that a woman alone with him would get turned out. However, in most of his music the opposite was happening: Prince worships women so much that in his songs he usually gets turned out by them. His stories were less about “This is what I’ll do to you,” than “This is what I want you to do to me.” That had a way of empowering the women he was speaking about, giving them agency and sexual force, rather than making bodies or conquests. His sexual narratives are rarely about being dominant—they don’t posit Prince as an undeniably seductive Casanova. Prince’s pen gave us women as aggressors who pick him up and/or are more sexual and promiscuous than him. One example: “Darling Nikki.”

No Prince song more clearly articulates porn chic coming to life in mainstream culture than “Darling Nikki.” The song seems like a porno distilled into a song. The ominous, steamy rock vamp at the outset builds into a wildly kinky vibe, then the lyrics really take you there. This is a story song like few others. Our sex god tells us he met a woman who’s far wilder than he—the first thing we learn about her is she was a sex fiend he met while she was masturbating in a hotel lobby. What an image. Not only can I picture her, but I feel she’s not a whore who’ll grab any man, but

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