Just when you thought music videos couldn’t sink much lower, someone finds a way. Now it’s a 6-year-old aspiring star out of South Florida who performs in a clip that’s just…..beyond.
Take a look at this:
According to news reports:
In “Booty Pop,” 6-year-old rapper Albert Roundtree Jr. repeats the refrain “I can make your booty pop, booty pop, booty pop,” as his face is sandwiched between two bikini-clad butts bouncing to the track’s beat. Watch the video above.
Later as he alludes to a night of intimacy with one of the gyrating women, “We can have some fun tonight because we both feeling right,” he takes out a water gun, holds it at crotch level, and hoses a nearby dancer down.
The clip’s director, Tyler Council says he was commissioned to do the video by Albert’s parents, who hope their son becomes a rap star from it. They paid “peanuts”, he says but he did the video because he needed a quick gig.
“He’s just trying to imitate his idols that he hears on the radio,” says Council of Albert. “There’s no touching going on, there’s no drug abuse.”
Well, phew. Because so long as he didn’t have actual sex WITH THE ADULTS, it’s OK……
Except it’s not. Some people are calling for his parents to be charged with child sex abuse. Others are wondering why child services haven’t removed the boy from his parents.
US psychiatrist Dr Keith Ablow writes:
Carla and K Roundtree, parents of a 6-year-old rapper and Tyler Council, producer of the boy’s “Booty Pop” music video should be legally charged with child sexual abuse, convicted and made to register as sexual offenders. The parental rights of his parents should be suspended, pending an investigation by child protective services.
Why?
They conspired to put a 6-year-old boy in a music video in which he raps about having sex with an adult woman and shoots a long, tubular and very phallic water pistol into the air—mimicking orgasm—while sandwiched between two bikini-clad woman who dance erotically within inches of him.
The six-year-old is clearly exposed to erotic behavior from adults who appear in the video and is portrayed as a sexual conquerer himself.
Erin Gillespie, a spokeswoman for Florida’s Department of Children and Families, told FoxNews.com that she could not confirm or deny that an investigation had been launched into the video.
Meanwhile, the director of the video is defending it. “It’s supposed to be a joke, but I’d say [only] about 30 percent of the people watching it find it funny,” Tyler Council, president of the Florida-based Froze-N-Time Productions, told the Miami New Times. “But I still don’t regret it.”
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I haven’t read any other comments but this is disgusting. First thing that came to mind was imagine the outrage if this was a 6 year old girl surrounded by half naked men singing about sex.
The fact he’s a boy makes no difference. He’s an innocent CHILD and the fact the parents orchestrated this is disgusting and disgraceful.
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Sickening – OMG – if that were a little six year old dancing and leading an adult man off camera, we would all be repulsed. Can’t believe I read some comments below trying to defend this…..
I hope the parents and makers and other “actors” in this sewerage are all charged with child endangerment crimes.
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Abuse. Plain and simple and it should not have been shown here on MM – just as you wouldn’t show child porn images in relation to a story on pedophilia.
Sure, talk about it but sharing the video adds to the problem.
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Sexual abuse is not just about the act of actually sexually abusing a child or knowingly failing to protect a child from such an act. In my view (and is evidenced by available lit and research on the topic) exposure of a child to sexually explicit material or a sexually explicit environment is as harmful and detrimental to a child development and emotional well being as sexual abuse. So what’s going on in this clip and I assume on the set when this clip was filmed is wrong and all involved, not just the parents, should be charged.
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Words fail me. And for God’s sake see a Paediatric Surgeon about that hernia. Idiots.
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Oh my. I too felt like this was akin to child porn, and I also see Mia’s point about not always ignoring things and addressing them so we can send the message of “This is wrong and we won’t tolerate it.” And who are these ridiculous women who chose to be in this video?
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i felt like i was watching child porn…i feel absolutely sick…the parents and each and every person involved in this video need to be charged with child sex abuse.
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There is absolutely nothing MM could say that could justify publishing this.
And I can’t believe so many people actually watched the video. It’s clear from the paused image and the story what it is about.
If the video is wrong (which it is), publishing it and therefore further promoting/advertising it is even worse.
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True and the thing is his parents are after fame – every time you click on that video, it’s one more hit on youtube, giving them exactly what they want. They don’t care that readers of mamamia are up in arms after watching, they just care that you’ve clicked. I’m sure they appreciate you sending viewers their way Mamamia!
And no. I haven’t watched it.
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Hi So Low,
Yes we had that conversation before we published. It’s often hard to know whether writing about something is ‘helping’ or ‘publicising’ it.
But there are some things that need the full force of public attention to send a message – not just to the person creating the video but more widely – that something is not OK.
Ignoring things is not always the best approach. That’s the call we made in this instance.
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I agree it’s a tricky balance Mia, but I think you could have covered the story without showing the video. As So Low said, the screen shot and article were enough for people to understand the situation without actually showing the video. There’s been many awareness raising articles written on issues such as child abuse and pornography but they don’t need to link a video to illustrate their point. And if you want to send a message, why doesn’t the article tell people how to complain to youtube or anyone else about the video?
The parents who made this video don’t care what a bunch of people on your site think, they care that they’ve gotten hits on youtube, which is what you have provided.
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The only thing I could think of when watching that was what is up with his belly button?
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I think there should be a bit of a gap between breastfeeding and being able to make a woman’s ‘booty pop’. It’s called a childhood.
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Why have you posted this on your site? You quote an expert stating that it amounts to ‘child sexual abuse’ so aren’t you perpetuating this abuse by posting the video? I agree with Yvette Vignando’s view that by embedding the clip you are complicit in this young boy being exploited. You use the clip like cheap tabloid fodder and the ‘commentary’ argument is a cop out.
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Well, none of the models are taking it too seriously; and the boy has eyes only for the camera. Count to ten everyone.
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Ian, if it was a 6 year old girl, surrounded by guys in speedos gyrating would you find that inappropriate?
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Exactly!
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Excellent point!
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If that were a six year old girl with men dancing like that around her they would be arrested.
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I wonder how comfortable these bikini clad women were popping their booty in a 6 year olds face? Inappropriate I think
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hater’s gonna hate…
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just sayin’
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omf…god!! how can you defend this video? i assume bikini clad lady#5 is your acting credit…if you can call that acting. people like you are whats destroying our society. just because someone will pay you to jaunt around in your bathers doesnt mean its right, where are your morals. btw’s before my 6 amazing children i could have out-popped your booty any day of the week
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She trollin’.
Just sayin’.
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The sad thing is that the little boy obviously has no idea what he’s even saying or participating in. His parents got him to memorise some words written by an adult and organised for him to dance around in front of a camera. What kind of parents exploit their kids like this?
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The poor kid should be seeing a surgeon not making a tacky trashy video.
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I actually found the poor kid’s umbilical hernia more distracting. Hope he gets that fixed.
Otherwise, so not appropriate.
THat is the problem I have with a few other general songs. Some of them can actually have lyrics that are not too bad, and my kids like the song and sing along on the radio. But then the video clip is all pimped up. Sometimes the song can be quite “G” rated, but the music clip borders on “MA”. Why do record companies do that? It’s so tacky and certainly not very appealing (although sadly, it does not challenge sales much).
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Isn’t it amazing what females will do for money. Shame on these females. They should not be doing that to a 6 year old boy
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Interesting you choose to blame *just* “females” (which somehow you manage to make sound derogatory). Sure, those dancers are definitely at fault, but what about the producer of this video? The boy’s parents? (female + male)…
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So what? It could not possibly have happened without the females
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I wonder why you would attempt to mitigate or legitimise the female’s behaviour by trying to spreading the blame or am I reading it wrong?.
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Actually, it couldn’t have happend without the host of adults involved in this production. Chill out rabbit, just saying that it’s not *just* the women to blame here. As I said originally. I said the women were too at fault – definitely not defending their actions, but take offense at the phrase “what females will do for money”.
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Hey Bunny Boy
No one is trying to mitigate the female’s behaviour in all of this – the gyrating bikini clad ‘models’ are clearly not what you’d term “professionals” but they should be ashamed of themselves for being involved.
There are clearly a host of adults who contributed to this disgusting piece – one would imagine the child’s father is a ‘rapper’ himself (could that be him actually shown in shot), the videographer (and I use that term loosely) is a male.
The child’s mother and the vile ‘friends’ who participated in this are just to blame.
But why just the women?
Clearly no-one, male or female, displayed a shred of adult or moral judgement when conceptualising or filming this revolting scenario.
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What you and Emmy seem to be saying is that females are no better than men. Now that’s just silly.
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Why is that silly?
In this instance, the women are no better than the men.
There are plenty of good women in the world and plenty of good men – it’s just none of them appear to be in this child’s life and certainly none were involved in this disgraceful situation.
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If it was a little girl surrounded by half naked men, shaking their bits at her, this wouldn’t be allowed on Youtube.
The same should have gone for this.
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Not sure if he will make it as a rap star but I reckon he is going to have a bucket load of issues when he is older.
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Jerry Springer, where are you?
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His parents clearly have too much money and not much in the brain department.
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OMG
I mean – Did I really just see what I just saw?
Sorry, I mean to say – Are you kidding me?
Ok, I think I’ve regained the ability to comment…
Nup. Speechless…
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The parents commissioned the video!!! Are some parents that desperate for “fame and money” or are they just living out their own teenage dreams through their little, unable to speak for themselves children. this is like the male version of beauty pageants. Disgusting!
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His parents “hope he can become a rap star from it”???????
Hey parents: How about hoping he can be a 6 YEAR OLD. He can be a “rap star” when he grows up.
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I agree with the sentiment of kids making our booties pop, but certainly not in that context! Eeewww!!
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One word….YUK!
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I am constantly amazed, disturbed by how many parents think its great that their four or five year olds can sing and dance the lastest songs that are sexually explicit its not funny entertaining etc its sick!
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I couldn’t even watch the whole clip. Disgusting!!!!
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Me neither.
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I think I have some vomit in my mouth now. That was just wrong. What the hell were the parents thinking??
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On an unrelated music clip topic, I was in a cafe yesterday and Johnny Ruffo (X-Factor contestant) came on. He was really good on the show, danced well, and now has a song with these lyrics “I’m on top of the world when I’m on top of you, girl!” Yeah, OK.
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I had the exact same reaction – saw it on MTV and had to rewind to make sure I hadn’t misheard it! RIDICULOUS!
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I know.
The song is AWFUL. CRINGE-WORTHY.
I still love Johnny Ruffo, though. I just think he’s been mislead big-time by his record company. AND IT’S NOT EVEN A GOOD SONG. At least Rihanna’s S&M was a good song, despite the subject matter.
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i heard that song too and thought it was absolutely rough as guts, i have a 3 year old boy and 1 yr old girl and i never really thought i would need to sensor the music they were exposed to… its sad!
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Fabulous, I now have my 4 yr old bopping around the house the singing “i can make you booty pop ,your booty pop” (she didnt see the clip ,just heard the soundtrack as she played with her mr potato heads) THAT clip is beyond wrong , i cant fathom how any one involved could of thought at any stage that this was going to be a good idea.Unfortunately, (for me atm) catchy tune .
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Ah, perhaps you shouldn’t have listened to it with her in earshot? Put some earphones in? I don’t think it could have come as a surprise to you – the article pretty clearly described what was going to be in the video!
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I am not too concerned about her hearing the actual context of the “song “.I am a musican and she has spent most of her life either at rehersals or in the studio with me that she has been exposed to a whole lot of generas of music , its more the fact that the lyrics are annoyingly catchy
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i work for an organisation that takes child protection very seriously . Everyone’s been trained in the basics of child protection and child abuse. A lot of research and evidence based information is presented to make people aware of child rights and the difference between behavioural norms, cultural norms and abuse (and the crossover between these!) Repeated and deliberate exposure of children to sexual imagery and information is abuse. The child may think it’s ok, the adults around may think it’s ok. That doesn’t make it ok. What the hell is happening when this can make it through the moral and ethical filters of A) the people involved in making it, B) the people involved in producing it and C) the people involved in publicising it?
I should be older and much more cynical before uttering these words..but we’re all going to hell in a handbasket!
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Sick. Unbelievable. Poor child.
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Disgusting.
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What I want to know is: what kind of a woman gyrates next to a 6 year old’s face?
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I guess we should just be greatful that she isn’t wearing a g-string bikini!!!
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Wtf??? Wow. What is wrong with some people?
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imagine the uproar if a six year old little girl was dancing and singing suggestively with adult men! This is so wrong on so many levels it’s not even funny.
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I don’t think I want to watch the video – I think it could totally make me lose my faith in humanity… poor kid will love that at his 21st I’m sure
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Yep – i didn’t watch the vid. Not interested at all.
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Those parent need stern talking too (code for slap in the face with a wet fish).
That was atrocious.
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Wrong to exploit a wee kid like that.Parents and producer should face a charge. So too should the two jirls gyrating in his face.
Someone also needs to havve his belly button checked out.
If the producer thinks that’s funny, he shouldn’t be producing/ filming anything.
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I have a six year old boy. He could actually do what that kid is doing – the difference is I WOULDN’T LET HIM! Most kids could mimic an adult, recite bad lyrics but ability doesnt mean its ok! Crazy parents corrupting his childhood!
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So wrong!
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How about instead of aiming to make women’s booty pop, someone get that kid’s hernia checked out. STAT!
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Was just about to say the same, thats one big hernia!
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My friend said it was just an outie belly button, but I said that it looked like a hernia and needed to be operated on.
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No. If you look closely it’s just above where his belly button should be. It’s the most common place for hernias. And pardon my ignorance but I’ve never seen an outtie belly button THAT big on an adult let alone a six year-old.
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This is wrong.
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In our house if your “booty” does a ‘pop’ it means something entirely different… :p
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I bet that’s dad in the pool with the girls, trying to cash in on all the chicks in bikinis! I honestly couldn’t stop looking at that belly button
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Could not watch more than 30seconds of it.
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Ok. I haven’t (& I wont) watch this clip. I have heard enough about it to get the idea. Please take this off your page. Seriously! If it were a little girl in this clip with men carrying on around her would you show it? Really, would you?
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OMG that s child abuse.
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