Do you like Thugs? Are You a Thug? What do you think About the Thugs?

Girls to Men
Young lesbians in Brooklyn find that a thug's life gets them more women
by Chloé A. Hilliard
April 10th, 2007 12:52 PM

http://www.villagevoice.c...21,15.html


Chick Murda, a/k/a Aisha Sampson, was an assistant teacher at an elementary school, but just started a job working for the state of New Jersey. “A lot of females like the way I carry myself, my swagger,” she says.

At the Lab, a Brooklyn nightclub and rental hall, a petite Hispanic bartender sporting braids down the middle of her back and a baseball cap is taking a break on a recent Friday night. Then she spots something in the crowd and leaps onto the bar. She sees another woman dressed in boyish hip-hop gear hitting on her femme girlfriend on the crowded dance floor. The bartender jumps to the floor, pushes her way past dancers, and grabs her woman by the arms. After giving her a rough, disapproving shake, she drags her quarry back to the bar, where the girlfriend will remain standing in silence the rest of the night.

"It's a property thing," explains Siya, who, like the bartender, looks like she's walked out of a rap video. Among the 15 tattoos that adorn her beige complexion are a large Bed-Stuy on her forearm and Brooklyn on the back of one hand. She's 20. "You can be holding your femme girlfriend's hand in the club, and she could be looking around, searching for a flyer AG. She's going to want to stray, slip her a number. All lesbians are sneaky," Siya says.

At the weekly 18-and-over females-only hip-hop party going on, about half of the black and Hispanic crowd is femme, the other half "AGs," or "aggressives," who also refer to themselves as "studs," whether they're fly or not.

Later, when two AGs get into a pushing match over a femme, one shouts, "Suck my dick, nigga! I'll fuck your whole shit up!" Friends break it up, pulling one outside the club to get the story. One of the women had tried to talk to the other's girlfriend while her back was turned. But it's a common occurrence. No femme, committed or not, is really off-limits.

"When you go to the club and you're an AG, your mission that entire night is to find the baddest femme in the club and make her your girl," says another woman, who calls herself Don Vito Corleone. "Just like every rapper wants the baddest video chick on his arm, so do AGs."

Rap videos have long provided men of color with milestones on their journeys to manhood. From being a successful street businessman (Notorious B.I.G.'s "Ten Crack Commandments"), to learning how to treat a woman (Dr. Dre's "Bitches Ain't Shit") and protecting their manhood (50 Cent's "What Up Gangsta?"), guys are told how to be indestructible, sexually assertive, and in general, badasses. The misogyny and homophobia implicit in that message has long raised the hackles of critics. Oprah Winfrey and columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. made news recently for saying "enough" to the influence of rap's rougher edges on black culture.

But for increasing numbers of very young black and Hispanic lesbians, the bitches-and-'hos lyrics of their musical heroes are the soundtrack for a thug's life they pursue with almost as much passion as they do the hottest femme in the club.

"These AGs have a disrespectful mentality, and they get it from men, hoodlums, dudes that are in the 'hood all day," says Kysharece Young, an AG, rapper ("Ky Fresh"), and freshman at Monroe College. "They act like a bunch of little damn boys that ain't got no sense."

(more in the link)

Questions will be answered over here www.npgunderground.org

That's a dude!

live4lust said:

She looks like Bow Wow...

gay or straight, that article is retarded and so are people that think that way.

SHANNA said:

Dayum, bow-wow aint so little anymore

OK, I have another question. How many of you object to being referred to as gay?

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

I know!...

SHANNA said:

OK, I was afraid to drool but

Dang. I don't even know what to say!

OK, you know what's hilarious? I knew this butch bull dyke who practically cut off penises for fun and her ex girlfriend told me she was the biggeest pillow princess in bed You'd have expected her to be all man with her fingers and meanwhile she needed to be bitched out with a strap on

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

He don't mind.

jerseykrs said:

Agreed

"property?"

ThreadCula said:

Okay.

But, let some other guy be all over me and my man does/says nothing about it?...:pitifulmuthafuckaemoticon:

SHANNA said:

Well,my man better not be jumping on bars,lurking & trying to put me in a corner :getyourdumbassoffthatbar:

ThreadCula said:

WTF is an AG???

Chick Murda looks like she may need more fiber in her diet.

DanceWme said:

agressive

mdiver said:

oh

SHANNA said:

Yeah, but this stud was punishing the girlfriend for it, making her stand in the corner and shit. PLEASE.

And not all studs and AGs behave this way, just like all straight men don't treat their women like this.

ThreadCula said:

oh, shit! I'm speechless!...

I agree! :getyourdumbassoffthebar:...Yes, PLEASE!

FunkMistress said:

Of course.

But, when push comes to to shove, grab me, man!!!

SHANNA said:

I kind of have to agree to an extent.

FunkMistress said:

It's okay.

I'm an honorary lesbian.

and I have absolutely ZERO interest in Chick Murda.

jerseykrs said:

no...you are a bitch..there is a big difference

mdiver said:

Don't hate...

...I'll treat you right, too, mdiver...

mdiver said:

OOOH!!!! Just wait til his AG hear's you disrespecting her femme! :

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said: