For the full extent of their relationship, Tyga and Kylie Jenner’s private life has been put on display for the entire world to see and develop an opinion about. While social media and society as a whole play a large role in this invasion of privacy, the most recent display has been put on by rapper Tyga himself in his newest track, “Stimulated.”
Upon listening to the lyrics of this new, hot single, one might find oneself picking one's jaw up off the floor following Tyga’s blatant references to (newly turned 18-year-old) Jenner’s womanhood and the couple’s sex life. After the track went viral, many began to question both the morality and legality of Tyga and Jenner’s relationship.
Chock full of controversy and moral conflict, the media has exposed many differing opinions regarding the couple and their choices. Understandably, many were appalled and opposed to this inappropriate exposure, but many millennials have risen to the couple’s defense, with statements like, “It’s not a sex tape,” and, “She’s legal now, so what’s the big deal?”
The big deal is not that they’re dating. The big deal is not that he’s more than six years her senior. The big deal is not the piggyback rides, touching, and kissing in the music video. The big deal is that a sexual relationship between 25-year-old Tyga and now-18-year-old Kylie is (or was) illegal. That Tyga blatantly disregards the age of young Jenner and publicly states in “Stimulated,” “They say she young, I should've waited. She a big girl, dog, when she stimulated.” While Kylie may be a “big girl” now, she wasn’t before the age of consent, no matter how “stimulated.” The big deal is the way that Tyga insists on referencing his girlfriend as an object to be “penetrated.” Lyrics like:
“I’m puttin’ in, I’m penetratin’.
I’m gettin’ big, I’m stimulated
I touched the b****, she disintegrated
Up in flames, I've been the flamest”
. . . are only furthering this world’s mentality that young women are only objects to be used. Kylie Jenner is more than just Tyga’s girlfriend, more than the muse for “Stimulated,” and more than a “big girl” to penetrate. It’s time for our society to recognize that this is the example that we are setting for young girls all around the world. Jenner and Tyga’s relationship is one of the hottest in the media right now. How many teenagers are going to look at these two attractive and successful young people and say “#goals”? How many young men are going to listen to this song and think, “Yeah man, I can’t wait for a girl like this.” How many unhealthy relationships are going to result from this and other chart toppers who glorify relationships like this?
Proverbs 31 tells us that women are “. . . worth far more than rubies,” and that “a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.” We, as a society, should take it upon ourselves to show our young people their worth. They are worthy of respect. They are worthy of love. They are worthy of someone who knows that they are “fearfully and wonderfully” made, and plans to treat them as such.
