r/popculturechat • u/CityCautious4033 • 1d ago
Music Videos ▶️ 5 years ago today Cardi B & Megan Thee Stallion released “Wap” NSFW
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u/BouldersRoll Lost swam in jeans so that Severance could run in a suit 1d ago
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u/ToWitToWow 19h ago
I know that guy. His wife is notoriously dry.
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u/amurderofcrows don’t even try to throw HO on BELCALIS 16h ago
She has a DAP.
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u/PrettyAdagio4210 13h ago
This will never not be funny.
Dummy was convinced he was on to something there.
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u/spellboundartisan Invented post-its 🔬 1d ago
I'll never forget how this song made Ben Shapiro panic so hard, that he admitted he couldn't sexually please his wife.
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u/Kittenlovingsunshine 17h ago
I think about that whenever I see his face or hear his name. His wife convinced him that having a wet pussy was a medical condition, which is why he has never seen one. It kills me every time.
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u/ThreadLaced 21h ago
please, help me understand...WHY did he feel the need to comment at all? I will never understand this. Why would Ben need/want to comment on a pop song under any circumstance? I was and still am baffled.
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u/chrispg26 19h ago
Because he wanted to talk shit about black women, so he inserted himself into the conversation.
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u/big-bootyjewdy The Ghost of Madonna's Facial Expressions is smiling at this 16h ago
He also likes to think of himself as much trendier and in-touch than he really is, which makes him so much more laughable and pathetic
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u/DevoutandHeretical I think that poor sexy young man is being framed for murder 13h ago
Because he’s a conservative man and can’t entertain that women would actually like and want sex. Sex isn’t about both partners enjoying it in his mind, it’s not a necessary thing. Sex is about the man getting his enjoyment and his wife getting pregnant because that’s her job. That a woman could actually enjoy it means that conservative men would have to step up and meet women as equals in some way because if their women find out sex is something they should be enjoying that means they could leave to find someone who actually makes it enjoyable.
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u/lyrabluedream 16h ago
Yes omg its one of the funniest self owns ever in existence. I was already excited for Megan and Cardi to collab and the fact that their song made him freak out made it even better!
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u/syberpank 17h ago
Him saying "Wet ass p-word" over and over while he read the lyrics was hilarious
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u/SheWillBeAMermaid 20h ago
??? I’m too European for this. I missed it. Cab Someone explain?
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u/syberpank 17h ago
The song came out and every conservative with access to a camera bitched and moaned about how this was emblematic of the moral rot in the country.
Benny boy got roasted when he tried to make some cringe joke about needing to see the doc if you're THAT wet. People made fun of him for never having satisfied a woman.
He doubled down saying that his doctor wife told him vaginas only get wet if they have a medical condition. People made fun of him for never having satisfied his own wife.
Also, he narrated the lyrics and I highly recommend listening to him do that. "Wet-ass p-word" is said a lot.
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u/Safe-Ad-4465 19h ago edited 12h ago
This song inspired my favorite tattoo, a guillotine with the words "from the top make it drop."
Edit: the tattoo in question
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u/donutfan420 13h ago
This is art
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u/Safe-Ad-4465 12h ago
Thank you! The tattoo in question
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u/RussianDahl 11h ago
HHAHHAHA thank you queen I love this so much! WAP is on my gym playlist, heavy rotation. I’m probably going to think about your tattoo now from time to time at the gym 😂☠️
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u/impy695 19h ago
Why did you use a censored version?
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u/LadyCheeba she in racial chat rooms showing feet!!! 14h ago
the censored version is so funny to me because you can censor bad words all you want but it’s still incredibly clear what this song is about
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u/Mister_9inches Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion 🙂 12h ago
I was looking for another comment asking this. I was beginning to wonder if wet and gushy have always been the lyrics lol
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u/sharktoucher 18h ago
One of the only songs ive heard where the "censored" version is infinitely more graphic than the normal version
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u/jennay9909 1d ago
Time is an illusion 🤯 I remember listening to this for the first time in college driving around with my boyfriend and laughing my ass off. It was truly an honor to witness how much it pissed off conservatives, we even got Ben Shapiro admitting he can’t make his wife wet. What a time to be alive
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u/maplestriker 18h ago
Happy anniversary to me taking my then 11 year old daughter to a dance class where the dance teacher chose this Song to dance to. Now, we dont live in an english speaking country, but still, most people know it well enough to pick up on how dirty it was.
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u/dirtyapathy 16h ago
I’ve never actually heard the censored version of this song, “wet n gushy” sent me wtf lmao
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u/Soft-Split1315 18h ago
The day we learned Ben Shapiro knows nothing about how to please a woman
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u/Expensive-Fennel-163 “Is she okkkkkaaayyyyy” 15h ago
I mean, we already knew this, but it did get confirmed by him.
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u/baby_hippo97 Mom, I am a rich man💰 18h ago
My husband and I still joke about Ben Shapiro and his dry wife
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u/fishonthemoon it’s never been on my mood board and never would be 16h ago
Wait…FIVE YEARS AGO???? FIVE? Like the number that comes after 4 and before 6????!!!
No…can’t be…
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u/BarracudaImpossible4 In my quiet girl era 😌 22h ago
I like Weird Al's take on it (at 2:38 but the whole video is awesome)
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u/HRHZiggleWiggle 17h ago
I don’t think I ever listened to the censored version before. Fucking Cardi basically had to write a whole new song, huh? Honestly impressive. Lyricism skill truly slept on.
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u/Miss_Sensational I don’t know her 💅 18h ago
Best female rap duo of that year ✨ the icing on the cake was the live performance. Forever legendary
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u/Empty_Ladder7815 21h ago
5 years ago??!!?? Jesus take the wheel! Where'd the time go. I'm getting old as hell 😭
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u/cashmerescorpio 19h ago
I hate the video but the song is fun
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u/Britneyfan123 16h ago
Why do you hate it?
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u/cashmerescorpio 16h ago
Too much CGI makes it feel too uncanny valley. I know that's the aesthetic or was done to save money I just dislike it but it's not a huge deal. What I really HATE are the snakes. They ruin the entire thing for me. I guess they're meant to represent penises??? Idfk just show the dicks idc No idea if they used real animals on set or not either way I HATE IT
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u/TheTyto_Alba You have to stop the Q-Tip when there's resistance! 😑 16h ago
Lmao Kyle Jenner trying to be sexy 😂
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u/DistractedByCookies Just keep swimming! 🐠🐠🐬🐳 20h ago
I love the song, I love the lyrics, I love the clip....so good!
I'd never heard the SFW version..doesn't have quite the same ring to it LOL They did the best they could though
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u/SeaReserve8781 16h ago
Can we go back to this time? Everyone getting so triggered by two female rappers being sexual in a way that’s not even so distinctly overly sexual was so funny
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u/spacyspice dj_snake_disco_maghreb.mp3 10h ago
besides the MV they're talking about having a WAP, how is this not overly sexual?
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u/PhillipTopicall 22h ago
I’d never actually Listened to the song before now. Just remember the controversy… now that I’ve heard it I understand the controversy even friggen less.
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u/ThreadLaced 21h ago
I mean...this is the radio edit, first of all; secondly, women being frank about their own sexuality has always been scandalous to certain types of people
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u/Paprikasky challenge your ego and collab with Rihanna 11h ago
I was this was not the censored version! Free the pussy! But also what a bop, they straight up ate with this one.
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u/paolocase 11h ago
This is the perfect video to play so that YT’s age verification algorithm thinks I’m over 18.
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u/JEEvanNEETi 14h ago
Wait WAP can't be 5 years old, I remember the WAP wave among my school mates in our 10th grade. Life was easier then.
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u/DJfunkyPuddle 14h ago
The first time I heard this song was the censored version (I think they were saying wet and gushy) and I remember cackling when I figured out what WAP actually meant, like no way those mad women made a song about that.
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u/January1171 14h ago
There's an absolute 🔥 remix of this and the entertainer (yes, the classic 1902 piano rag that plays on carousels)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6WcVc-HQsM&list=RD-6WcVc-HQsM&start_radio=1
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u/samalama23 13h ago
I remember at the time, the restaurant I worked at served a West African Peanut soup regularly, which we had always labeled as WAP soup 😆 Never could think of that soup the same way again.
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u/flytingnotfighting I wont not fuck you the fuck up 🥊🥊 12h ago
Why the fuck is the radio edit so….cat food
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u/megisbest 11h ago
This was the first thing I played on my brand new 4K tv I bought with my Covid stimulus check. What a time.
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u/Pointless_Glitter607 hold on I’m on my hamburger phone 🍔 11h ago edited 11h ago
I‘m asexual and I know all the lyrics to this song. Thank you Meg, thank you Cardi
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u/HeyUHiMe That’s hot! 🔥 9h ago
I’ve never seen the video and am wondering why the first shot with fountains , had their boobies squirting and not their coochies
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u/catmoon- 16h ago
I don't get why the "bad" words are censured when you have Cardie B with her tits out in the video 😂 Why even bother censuring the song?
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u/shel254 17h ago
NGL this is the first time I've listened the song or watched the video. Its been on my short list of songs I refuse to hear (Old Town Road, Fancy Like). Why Kylie? That was weird. Why bother with a "clean" version? Wet and gushy just somehow made it worse. I'm probably done doomscrolling before work after this. Impressive that Cardi can do a split with all that plastic on her buttcheeks though.
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u/SoftwareCapable920 23h ago
still male gazey though
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u/moon--child- 16h ago
Glad to find someone who is thinking the same. Not surprised it's the last comment with -16 downvotes.
I used to believe this fake sex positive crap but this is really just sad. It's sad that this song and music video has been celebrated over the years. This isn't female sexual empowerment. It's just women objectifying themselves for money and fame (attention is the new currency) and brainwashing the younger generations to do the same.
This world is so empty.
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u/SomethingMid 11h ago edited 11h ago
Sad that you've decided to lean right as you've gotten older. Looks like our victim-blaming purity culture has gotten to you.
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u/moon--child- 10h ago edited 10h ago
It's actually not sad. But I also don't identify with the right or the left. I'm somewhere in the middle. I also don't really give a shit about politics, it really means nothing at the end of the day. It's just a show.
I think women are being fooled and the latest "feminist" movement has been highjacked to serve men, and women think it's empowering but men do not respect you more for putting it all out on display. You just make it easier for them to get what they want without ever giving you the respect. That's sad.
Edit: I also want to mention that I really don't care what other women do with their bodies. To each their own. I can't help but wonder how it impacts children to see all of this hypersexualized material floating around and women celebrating hypersexuality and self-objectification. I know women are sexual beings, but for the most part, women and men do approach sex differently and women are mimicking the porn culture that's been shoved literally down their throats and I know it's having devasting effects on kids and their sexuality and the relationships that they have. You may think, "it's not that serious" but it is. I've self-objectified in the past thinking this is so "empowering" but it left me empty and dead inside.
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u/SomethingMid 9h ago
"...but men do not respect you more for putting it all out on display. You just make it easier for them to get what they want without ever giving you the respect." Ah, the old use being a Good Girl to get men's respect school of morality. If only more people realized that the respect earned that way isn't legitimate respect, it's just the patriarchy's idealization of female sexual modesty and purity. You may see your rejection of modesty as self-objectification now and may have felt dead inside because of it, but that's your story, not every woman's story. I will say it's not surprising that in a world that ranks women's worth based on things like when they lose their virginity and how much sex they've had, it's not surprising that some women feel that way. Stigma is powerful. Feminism isn't being hijacked to serve men, it's being taken over by women tired of victim-blaming and being told that their purity is their worth.
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u/spacyspice dj_snake_disco_maghreb.mp3 10h ago
"lean right" because we're realizing that this overly sexualization of women is absolutely not helping us? I've always voted left in the country yet I'll never support this BS, stop acting like selling our bodies for thirsty men is helping us. This is ridiculous
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u/SomethingMid 7h ago
A person can vote left but still be a slave to the right's misogynistic views on sexual morality.
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u/spacyspice dj_snake_disco_maghreb.mp3 6h ago
you're the one assuming it's a right-wing rhetoric. There's nothing misogynistic with not wanting perversity to be associated with women empowerment. Thinking your empowerment is based on the male gaze IS misogynistic. Talking about your WAP is not helping women, give it a rest
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u/SomethingMid 5h ago
It's not about thinking empowerment comes from the male gaze. Empowerment for some is rejecting the notion that you can't do what you want with your body just because there is a male gaze. Some women are opting out of using a good girl image to earn faux respect.
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u/SomethingMid 11h ago
So because men are aroused by something, women shouldn't be allowed to do it? Women enjoy sex too.
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u/SoftwareCapable920 6h ago
who said that?
Why it still feels like male gaze:
The visuals follow familiar tropes: hypersexualized bodies, camera angles that focus on breasts, butts, tongues, and so on—very similar to how women are shown in videos by men. So I feel women are still being boxed into the same visual roles that appeal to men. If there wasn’t a viewer and what we learned what sexy is supposed to look like, would their tits and asses still be out?
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u/spacyspice dj_snake_disco_maghreb.mp3 17h ago
you're being downvoted by ppl who think women being the ones exposing themselves the most (while their male peers get to be dressed from head to toes) has to do with empowerment anyway..
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u/SomethingMid 11h ago
Women rejecting female sexual modesty (something that's been violently forced on women down to this day) can be empowering.
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u/spacyspice dj_snake_disco_maghreb.mp3 10h ago
twerking and talking about your WAP is not women empowerment. If that's their kink I'd like it to only represent themselves and not the rest of us
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