9-year-old rapper's adult-themed videos prompt state probe [View all]
Source: CNN
A 9-year-old rapper's adult-themed music videos are finding some new viewers -- Massachusetts child welfare authorities.
The child, Luie Rivera Jr., whose stage name is "Lil Poopy," is seen in videos posted online, including on YouTube, smacking a woman's backside, flashing wads of cash, riding in a Ferrari and rapping about how "coke is not a bad word."
A separate video shows the young performer in a nightclub with a dancing woman in a sexually suggestive position, with people in the crowd throwing cash.
The Brockton, Massachusetts, Police Department contacted the state's Department of Children and Families after receiving a call from a "concerned citizen" who saw the boy in videos featuring sexual themes and drug references. The state agency is brought in when there is suspicion of physical, mental, or emotional abuse of a child, according to Brockton police Lt. Robert Sergio.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/25/us/massachusetts-child-rapper-investigation/index.html
Gee, and you thought kids made these kinds of rap songs like:
"Jump" by Kris Kross
"Whip My Hair" by Willow Smith (daughter of Will Smith)
"My Baby" by Lil' Romeo (son of gangsta rapper Master P and would later play basketball at USC)
As for Rivera's video, you can choose for yourself if you want to subject yourself to audio torture. And you thought Seth MacFarlane was
raunchy enough last night at the oscars! And no you can't compare this rapping kid to Brooke Shields playing a child prostitute in
Pretty Baby or a 12-year-old Dakota Fanning in a rape scene in
Hounddog. But
maybe to Angus T. Jones on the set in front of all of Charlie Sheen's raunchy jokes on
Two and a Half Men. And should CPS start seizing all the 12- and 13-year-old kids who listen to rappers like Lil Wayne and 2 Chainz, rappers who obviously have influence on Rivera?