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I'm going to keep things in the
realm of hip hop for a moment.

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And my first gesture
towards doing that

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is to get myself some dancing
girls up for my next bit.

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Let's just have you
dance for me, Coal Black.

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This is a Coal Black from "Coal
Black and de Sebben Dwarfs."

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It's a Warner
Brothers cartoon that

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was a parody of "Snow White
and the Seven Dwarfs."

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And I like to have--

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this is actually how Coal Black
makes her first appearance

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in the animated short--

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washing at a washtub.

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Now I like to have this up
here because I've gotten awards

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mostly because I'm awesome.

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I've gotten them.

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I got a Whiting and just
prayed it wasn't a verb.

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I've gotten it.

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But I had no true
mark of success

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because I've never done a stage
show with a Black woman shaking

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her ass behind me.

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And that, in the
cultural capital

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of the neighborhood
I grew up in,

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is a true signifier of success.

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So thank God the internet
provided me with Coal Black

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to do this for me.

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I'm going to also present
alongside with this--

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don't worry.

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She's still dancing.

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She doesn't know how
to do anything else.

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This is a poem called "Drop
It Like It's Hottentot Venus."

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And she dances
alongside this poem

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mostly because I push
a button and make her.

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"Drop It Like It's
Hottentot Venus"--

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How many people know who
the Hottentot Venus is?

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All right, excellent.

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Excellent.

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OK, so just to fill in,
because we are still

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on your college campus.

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So always teachable moments.

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The Hottentot Venus was a
woman from South Africa who

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made her way to Europe
and was put on exhibition

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alongside animals and sideshows
because she had a really,

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really, really big bottom.

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And she was later--

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when she died,
she was autopsied.

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They kept her
genitals in a museum.

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And only recently were they
returned back to her homeland.

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So "Drop It Like
It's Hottentot Venus"

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is what we're going to do.

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OK.

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So drop it like it's
Hottentot Venus.

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Drop, dip, trip, slip, sink,
teetering, tilted, up, on,

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onto, hip to, under, lesser,
vile, spit, shit, up,

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slot, slip, pit, hoe, kitten
to split, rip, sunder, shred,

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ride, rent, rent it
out, ho, pro prostitute.

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She isn't loved.

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No, no, not, never.

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Drop it, rump keister end up on
TV, video, HD, DV, in prisons,

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in shot, nuts, spoo,
seep, I pour it on.

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Drop it like it's
Hottentot, other,

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her, soot, dirt, spoiled,
rotten, revolted hoe, shot.

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Drop it like it's
Hottentot Venus.

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Drop it like it's Hottentot.

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Other, her soot tinted skin,
rhyme, husk, hiding, pole, rod,

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penis, tool, I hit it.

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Poke, strike, stroke,
prod, she must prod,

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provoked to, push to, press
to, driven to, own as hers.

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Drop, drip, drip, slip,
sink, teeter until tits

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up, drunk teetering,
drunken, tilted, South,

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tore up the dome, tush, hi,
look, nude, hiney, look, peek,

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pierce, see, so rotund, distort,
revise, edit, the pose, drop,

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drip, drip, drip, slip, sink,
teetering till tits up, on,

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onto, hip to under,
lesser, bile,

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spit, shit, spoil,
repulse, stick.

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Drop it like it's Hottentot.

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Other, her soot, dirt, soiled,
rotten, revolting, hoe, shit,

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in it again.

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Drop it like it's
Hottentot Venus.

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Drop, drip, drip, slip,
sink, teetering, drunken,

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tilted, South, tore
up the dunk, tush.

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Hi, hienie, look, nude,
peek, peer, see so--

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OK, I'm on the same place.

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Drop it like it, rump keister
end up on TV, video, HD, DV,

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imprisoned, in shot, nut,
smooth, seat, I pour it on.

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Drop it like it's Hottentot.

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Hottentot, other, her
soot, sinted, tinted skin,

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rind, husk, hide and
pull, rod, penis, tool.

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I hit it, provoked to, push
to, press to, driven to,

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owners hers.

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Drop, dip, drip, slip,
slink, teetering, tilted,

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drop it till tits.

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Kick, ah!

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Aha!

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Drop it till drip, trip,
slip, sink, teetering

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till tits up on, onto, dip, hip,
to under, lesser, vile, spit,

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shit, up, slot, slip,
pit, hoe, kitten--

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no, I've been there.

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OK, drop it like
it's Hottentot Venus.

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Drop it like it's
Hottentot Venus.

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Drop it like it's
Hottentot Venus.

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Drop it like it's
Hottentot Venus.

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She isn't loved.

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No, no, not, never.

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[APPLAUSE]

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