Minister Louis Farakhan recently did an interview with Hip Hop Since 1987, and he had a really stern message for Jay Z, Beyonce, and he even through in Nicki Minaj and Rihanna too. He’s not feeling the clothing, or lack thereof, that these artists are wearing nowadays and in true Farakhan style he wanted to put it in check.
Here’s what he said about how women’s clothing choices can get men off track:
“Today you strip the woman of her clothes. How can a man think straight, looking at the beauty of Beyoncé?”
Farakhan on what he thinks Beyonce’s husband Jay Z and her managers should do to convince her to put on more clothes when she performs:
Help us [men] to be more sane. A man is made into a dog by a way a woman presents herself to a man. There ain’t no preacher out there that’s that holy that a woman can disrobe herself and a man can still think Bible, still think Quran. How do you rule a man? You rule him by the beauty of your body and the suggestion of sex. So when you strip a woman down, a man becomes a dog. You don’t make a man? You make him to treat you like an object of sex instead of the creative genius that you are.
You have to educate the managers. Jay Z is a good man. Jay Z is a good manager. But now, your woman is on display. Do you want men looking at your woman, being tempted by your woman, to make advances at your woman? Who wouldn’t want to be with Rihanna? Who wouldn’t want to be with Nick Minaj? But you strip them then their body is being used as the tool of the degradation of a woman and the subjection of a man.
He goes on to encourage Jay Z not to continue to allow Beyonce to be a sex object:
There’s no man doing something that a woman can’t do, and in some cases do it better. Man is Hakeem. That’s the attribute of God, that means wise. She’s Hakeema that means God has made her to be a possessor of wisdom.
Don’t degenerate your woman and make her nothing more than an object of sex. She’s more than that.
So I would encourage Jay Z–and I hope you’ll take it in the…