• Is it age appropriate?

  About our ratings

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  Not age appropriate for kids under 14, age appropriate for kids over 17; suggested age 15.

• Is it any good?

  4.0

• Common Sense says

  Explicit lyrics give Latin-flavored rap CD a strong bite.

Why We Rated This for Ages 15–17

What to watch out for

• Messages:

  Things starts off positive with messages about not surrendering and reaching "for the sky" with Pitbull rapping "ain't nothing can hold me down." But then Pitbull switches gears to get raunchy with women, diss his enemies, and discuss drug dealing.
• Role models:

  Between trying to talk women into sex and celebrating the "thug life," Pitbull glamorizes the life of a drug dealer on "Dope Ball."
• Violence:

  Not an issue.
• Sex:

  On one song Pitbull sings about coercing a woman into sex: "She said no but I know it’s on tonight...Your mind says no, but your body says yes." But then a few tracks later Pitbull laments the exploitation of women: "The ones that have been raped or grew up fatherless,
  but still found a way to raise their kids, to do the right thing, this for y'all, I love y'all." Other songs include sexual references, like comparing a woman's body to a "juice box" and Pitbull calling himself a plumber who can take care of a woman's "pipes."
• Language:

  Although not every song has strong language, the ones that do go to extremes, repeating over and over again phrases like "you're so full of s--t" and "motherf---r" There is also a smattering of "bitch" and "ho," and the "N" word. 
• Consumerism:

  Not an issue.
• Drinking, drugs, & smoking:

  "Dope Ball" compares drug dealing to basketball. "Sample the blow, we call them free throws...the whole point is to stay on the courts, but in this game the whole point is to stay outta court."

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