The media is on fire with questions about whether Nicki Minaj went "too far" with the artwork for her next single, Anaconda , which shows her from behind wearing just a pink G-String. Amazingly, what nobody is discussing is the wider issues of the historical roots, cultural resonance and contemporary implications of a mass circulated image that arguably reduces black women to just "big butts" and little more. According to black cultural critics such as Patricia Hill Collins, one of the most famous historical examples of the way black women have been dehumanized through the "booty" is the case of a South African slave called Sarah Baartman. Baartman spent much of her life being exhibited as a "freak" because of the size of her buttocks. Known as the Hottentot Venus, she was put on display in London and Paris, often in a cage. After she died in - in poverty - she was dissected, and her sexual organs were housed in a Paris museum until

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It's no secret that Nicki Minaj embraces her big booty! In a new interview with Billboard , the year-old rapper responds to the criticism against her super-sexy "Anaconda" music video, which features scantily clad dancers showing off their curvaceous butts in very little clothing. I consider myself a skinny girl I went overboard with the video to show that I'm not going to hide. And those big-booty dancers I have, they're not going to hide.
The song samples the Detroit techno single "Technicolor" by Channel One. At the time of its original release, the song caused controversy with its outspoken and blatantly sexual lyrics about women, as well as specific references to the female buttocks which some people found objectionable. The song's music video was briefly banned by MTV. The song debuted at number 75 on the Billboard Hot chart dated April 11, and hit number one twelve weeks later. The single spent five weeks at the top of the chart. The first verse begins with "I like big butts and I cannot lie" and most of the song is about the rapper's attraction to women with large behinds.