Jineea Butler
(NNPA)—Pebbles Ward who is a cast member on hit reality series “South Beach Tow” reached out to the Hip Hop Union for help. She said it was a life or death situation and she had nowhere else to turn. I asked her to explain to me how the Hip Hop Union could assist. She said, “I have headaches, nose bleeds, numbness, vomiting of blood, shortness of breath, dizziness, back pain, chest pain, and I can’t even walk some days. The hospitals can’t help. They said I need a special surgeon.” She went on to say, “We need to raise a minimum of $13,000 to remove this deadly substance from my body. If I don’t have surgery I could die. So please help me have this surgery so I can be here to raise my kids.”
I am thinking OMG what could be wrong? She said she has cement oozing down her leg because she received an illegal butt injection in 2004 by a fake doctor. My response was, “You allowed a doctor to come to your house and inject you with cement because you wanted a bigger derriere?” She replied, “Yes.”
For the past few days, I’ve been at a loss for words as I reflected on our conversation. I can’t say I haven’t noticed the influx of ‘Super Booty’s’ in hip hop. And I can’t say I haven’t wondered what has been distorting these young women’s bodies. Then, I realized this is a quiet epidemic that is hovering below the radar. It’s time for us to address it.
Remember the 20-year-old British tourist, Claudia Seye Aderotimi, while in pursuit of a career in hip hop, lost her life to Philadelphia’s “Black Madam” in February 2011 as a result of fatal silicone buttock injections at an airport hotel?
Or how about Apryl Brown, a British woman who lost both her hands and feet, as well as her buttocks, after getting black-market silicone injections that turned out to be comprised of bathroom sealant?
I can’t fathom the feeling that leads any woman to change her physical attributes, let alone allowing unlicensed individuals to come into their homes to perform “pumping parties” and inject them with foreign substances, including bathroom caulk, cement, super glue, Fix-a-Flat, and mineral oil. Is hip hop to blame for this growing practice?
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