{"id":481258,"date":"2019-01-23T21:09:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T04:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=783624"},"modified":"2019-01-23T21:09:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T04:09:27","slug":"teyana-taylors-nsfw-wtp-is-the-battle-rap-of-ballroom-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/teyana-taylors-nsfw-wtp-is-the-battle-rap-of-ballroom-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Teyana Taylor\u2019s NSFW \u2018WTP\u2019 Is the Battle Rap of Ballroom Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Welcome to \u2018Will I Get Fired For This?,\u2019 an occasionally recurring column in which staff writer Charles Holmes \u2014 whose duties include but are not limited to watching and writing about music videos \u2014 watches a new music video that he fears will get him fired. Read the previous entry for Metro Boomin\u2019s \u201c10 Freaky Girls,\u201d featuring 21 Savage, here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Will I Get Fired For This? is a learning experience and Teyana Taylor\u2019s<\/a> \u201cWTP\u201d introduces a new world I\u2019m vaguely aware of, but interested in knowing more about \u2014 ball culture. The self-directed video is set-up as a mockumentary, where different models describe what type of walks they compete in and the different houses they belong too. From what I can gather, balls are similar to rap battles \u2014 everyone has nicknames and styles \u2014 except more intense. Les Fabian Brathwaite\u2019s far more eloquent description<\/a> defines balls as\u00a0\u201ca way for queer blacks and Latinos to live their best lives\u2026Through elaborate performances incorporating and commenting on race, class and gender, the ball community has historically reflected the American Dream and one\u2019s exclusion from it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Inexplicably, Taylor casts herself as a fictional nobody who picks up dresses \u2014 think\u00a0Rabbit from 8 Mile\u00a0<\/em>without the bars about spaghetti or class politics. \u201cI just don\u2019t understand why I\u2019m not good enough to work my pussy at the ball,\u201d she says, while decked in a red Bape hoodie. Then boom, Taylor is dressed in a red wig, lingerie and fur coat acting like the Russell Westbrook of the ball. She twerks and vogues, until Lena Waithe has no choice, but to say \u201cshe a special motherfucker.\u201d\u00a0Unfortunately, we never check back in with Tokyo McGlare, Milan Christopher, Trace Lysette or Shawn Extravaganza on how they feel that the director of \u201cWTP\u201d also won the competition.<\/p>\n

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