Our Greatest Achievements: Smell Yo Dick
The inaugural post for this website was an immediate concession: nothing I can do here will ever top Soulja Boy Tellem’s contribution to our society, an epic narrative of a man’s struggle to both crank that and robocop called succinctly “Crank That (Soulja Boy).” At the time I postulated that “Crank That (Soulja Boy)” was our society’s swan song, our “greeted by Spanish Conquistadors moment,” and that everything done from that moment forward was ultimately the downtrend from our culture’s apex. If I had known that these statements would have been seen as some sort of a challenge, trust me, I never would have typed word one.
It is with great hesitation that I present the first official entry into a new series of cultural essays about our society’s greatest achievements, an R&B soliloquy from Riskay entitled “Smell Yo Dick.”
Produced by DJ Quest, and featuring a stunning spoken word monologue by Aciance, “Smell Yo Dick” sees Riskay asking the most profound and universal of questions to her lover, whom she suspects of having committed adultery: “can I smell yo dick?” In the face of mountains of evidence like camera-phone photos of him dancing with “dirty foot bitches,” erratic behavior, and inconsistency when returning home, Riskay changes her request for dick smelling to a demand, saying “what you need to do is let me smell yo dick.”
Riskay represents the modern female, a woman in charge of her sexuality and subsequently in control of her life. She presents the new reality, that her identity is not dependent upon her relationship to the alpha male, when she says, “but nigga you need to stop lying, before I get mad and pull out my nine. You wanna new bitch to fuck? That’s fine. But don’t fuck hers and try to fuck mine.” She presents herself as forceful, somehow understanding, and yet intolerant of any transgressions.
We are also given insight into the mind of Riskay’s man, here brilliantly portrayed by rapper Aciance. This character is nothing short of a modern day Heathcliff, a man possessed by another spiritual or paganistic force, and consumed by a raw, primal sexuality. He defies explanation and, at most, presents an “other” to our ballad’s Catherine, Riskay. When Aciance raps, “smell my dick? Wait a minute, hold up. See, that’s how a bitch get her eye swoll’d up” he affirms himself as the radical and the dangerous unknown.
“Smell Yo Dick,” is the ultimate expression of modernity and its effect on sexuality, identity, and traditional relationships. There can be no other entry as perfectly suited for the beginning of a great tome of our society and culture.
“Smell Yo Dick” is currently on exhibition at Riskay’s myspace page. A Youtube version is provided below for your convenience.
Further Reading:
Official Website: Riskay Music
Myspace: Riskay, Drama Queen
- Rob O’Reilly
