Does The Old Jay Z Interview Featuring 2 Women Giving Oral Prove That Rap Has Evolved?

In 2014, this would never take place.

While you were sleeping the other night, a 15-year-old video of Jay Z in a compromising position made its way on the Internet once again, and has now sparked a huge discussion on rap.

The clip, which was taken from a 1997 Uncle Luke FreakShow tape, shows Jay (who was 28 at the time) being interviewed by Uncle Luke while two women engage in oral sex next to them. Yes, you heard right. Two chicks were naked and pleasing each other in an interview featuring Jay and Luke.

This was worse than some of Hip Hop’s most objectifying moments involving women, including Nelly swiping a credit card down a chick’s butt in “Tip Drill” and Snoop Dogg showing up at an awards show with two women on a leash.

According to Consequence of Sound’s Alex Young:

It also says a lot about how far we’ve come in just 15 years: many argue that hip-hop is still hypersexualized, but if a rapper like Kendrick Lamar or ASAP Rocky appeared in something like this today, the blowback would be intense and their career probably derailed.

Ironically, 20-plus years ago, 2 Live Crew’s Uncle Luke went as far up as the Supreme Court to defend his First Amendment rights when the group’s album, As Nasty As They Wanna Be, was deemed way too obscene for public consumption because of its raunchy lyrics. Now rappers are being taken to task and held accountable for their lyrics and overall behavior, especially in 2013.

Last year, petitioners forced Mountain Dew to drop Lil Wayne for his controversial Emmett Till line, and Rick Ross was also dropped from his Reebok endorsement over a “date rape lyric.” Petitioners shut down rapper Shawty Lo’s reality show featuring his 10 baby mamas before it could even begin, and even a less controversial rapper like J. Cole found himself in hot water last year when he offended the autism community in his lyrics. Drake, who was also featured on the record, offered up an apology, too.

The constant need to apologize is leaving some rappers feeling censored and some have even voiced that they feel as though it’s affecting the music they make.

Long story short, if this happened today, it would be on the front page of World Star, but it’s guaranteed the rapper involved would be skinned on Twitter, several petitions and boycotts would be launched and careers would plummet.

Video spotted at Gawker

It’s hard to tell if Uncle Luke lured Jay into the interview without him knowing if there would be chicks there, but Jay (as would any man) was definitely distracted. Crazy!