I recently took a look at a Yahoo search that I was popping up under (keywords “good future husband”), and found something quite amusing. The rapper Ludacris was showing up in the number three spot on the search. I showed up somewhere near the bottom. Now, I’m sitting here trying to figure out what A Good Husband has in common with Ludacris and how we have crossover appeal, and I can’t make any sense of it.
Perhaps Yahoo knows something about Ludacris that I don’t know. Perhaps Ludacris would make a great husband (is he married?) and Yahoo simply wants everyone to know about it. If so, that’s awful kind of them (and rather prescient).
I guess it doesn’t make any sense to me with the kind of lyrics that come out of the hip hop culture. I took a look at some of Ludacris’ lyrics, and they seemed to be standard fare for the rapper culture, with a few exceptions. It’s pretty easy to villify rap and say that all rappers are bad, and I hate to do it, but cultivating a persona that is tough, mean, and “hard” just seems to promote that attitude.
If you’re going to promote that kind of persona, and you’re going to continue to use slurs like the “N-word” then I don’t know how good of a future husband you’re going to be.
