I'm going to keep things in the realm of hip hop for a moment.
And my first gesture towards doing that
is to get myself some dancing girls up for my next bit.
Let's just have you dance for me, Coal Black.
This is a Coal Black from "Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs."
It's a Warner Brothers cartoon that
was a parody of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
And I like to have--
this is actually how Coal Black makes her first appearance
in the animated short--
washing at a washtub.
Now I like to have this up here because I've gotten awards
mostly because I'm awesome.
I've gotten them.
I got a Whiting and just prayed it wasn't a verb.
I've gotten it.
But I had no true mark of success
because I've never done a stage show with a Black woman shaking
her ass behind me.
And that, in the cultural capital
of the neighborhood I grew up in,
is a true signifier of success.
So thank God the internet provided me with Coal Black
to do this for me.
I'm going to also present alongside with this--
don't worry.
She's still dancing.
She doesn't know how to do anything else.
This is a poem called "Drop It Like It's Hottentot Venus."
And she dances alongside this poem
mostly because I push a button and make her.
"Drop It Like It's Hottentot Venus"--
How many people know who the Hottentot Venus is?
All right, excellent.
Excellent.
OK, so just to fill in, because we are still
on your college campus.
So always teachable moments.
The Hottentot Venus was a woman from South Africa who
made her way to Europe and was put on exhibition
alongside animals and sideshows because she had a really,
really, really big bottom.
And she was later--
when she died, she was autopsied.
They kept her genitals in a museum.
And only recently were they returned back to her homeland.
So "Drop It Like It's Hottentot Venus"
is what we're going to do.
OK.
So drop it like it's Hottentot Venus.
Drop, dip, trip, slip, sink, teetering, tilted, up, on,
onto, hip to, under, lesser, vile, spit, shit, up,
slot, slip, pit, hoe, kitten to split, rip, sunder, shred,
ride, rent, rent it out, ho, pro prostitute.
She isn't loved.
No, no, not, never.
Drop it, rump keister end up on TV, video, HD, DV, in prisons,
in shot, nuts, spoo, seep, I pour it on.
Drop it like it's Hottentot, other,
her, soot, dirt, spoiled, rotten, revolted hoe, shot.
Drop it like it's Hottentot Venus.
Drop it like it's Hottentot.
Other, her soot tinted skin, rhyme, husk, hiding, pole, rod,
penis, tool, I hit it.
Poke, strike, stroke, prod, she must prod,
provoked to, push to, press to, driven to, own as hers.
Drop, drip, drip, slip, sink, teeter until tits
up, drunk teetering, drunken, tilted, South,
tore up the dome, tush, hi, look, nude, hiney, look, peek,
pierce, see, so rotund, distort, revise, edit, the pose, drop,
drip, drip, drip, slip, sink, teetering till tits up, on,
onto, hip to under, lesser, bile,
spit, shit, spoil, repulse, stick.
Drop it like it's Hottentot.
Other, her soot, dirt, soiled, rotten, revolting, hoe, shit,
in it again.
Drop it like it's Hottentot Venus.
Drop, drip, drip, slip, sink, teetering, drunken,
tilted, South, tore up the dunk, tush.
Hi, hienie, look, nude, peek, peer, see so--
OK, I'm on the same place.
Drop it like it, rump keister end up on TV, video, HD, DV,
imprisoned, in shot, nut, smooth, seat, I pour it on.
Drop it like it's Hottentot.
Hottentot, other, her soot, sinted, tinted skin,
rind, husk, hide and pull, rod, penis, tool.
I hit it, provoked to, push to, press to, driven to,
owners hers.
Drop, dip, drip, slip, slink, teetering, tilted,
drop it till tits.
Kick, ah!
Aha!
Drop it till drip, trip, slip, sink, teetering
till tits up on, onto, dip, hip, to under, lesser, vile, spit,
shit, up, slot, slip, pit, hoe, kitten--
no, I've been there.
OK, drop it like it's Hottentot Venus.
Drop it like it's Hottentot Venus.
She isn't loved.
No, no, not, never.
[APPLAUSE]