Top American rapper, T.I, has disclosed in an interview that every year, he takes his daughter, Deyjah Harris, to the gynecologist to check her virginity.
He made this known in a chat with Nazanin Mandi and Nadia Moham. Although, he admits his 15-year-old son is sexually active and he doesn’t have a problem with that.
The rapper said:
“I think that most kids in hindsight, looking back, they always thank their parents for not allowing them to damage themselves as much as they could have.
“Deyjah’s 18, just graduated high school now and she’s attending her first year of college, figuring it out for herself. And yes, not only have we had the conversation, we have yearly trips to the gynecologist to check her hymen.
“So it’s this one time we go, I think this might have been after her 16th birthday. This is what we do. Right after the birthday we celebrate. Usually like the day after the party she’s enjoying her gifts.
“I put a sticky note on the door: ‘Gyno. Tomorrow. 9:30.’ So we’ll go and sit down and the doctor will come and talk and the doctor’s maintaining a high level of professionalism.
“He’s like, ‘You know sir, I have to, in order to share information’ — I’m like, ‘Deyjah they want you to sign this so we can share information. Is there anything you wouldn’t want me to know? See doc? No problem.’ .
“And so then they come and say, ‘Well I just want you to know that there are other ways besides sex that the hymen can be broken like bike riding, athletics, horseback riding and just other forms of athletic physical activity.’
“So I say, ‘Look doc, she don’t ride no horses, she don’t ride no bike, she don’t play no sports. Just check the hymen please and give me back my results expeditiously. I will say as of her 18th birthday, her hymen is still intact.”
His revelation has led to a conversation online as Twitter users blast him. Rapper Iggy Azalea, who recently had a beef with T.I. also joined in calling him out.
She tweeted in reply to a fan who said “men are terrible”: “I really wish the women who interviewed him would have said something to him. He has serious control issues with women in all aspects of his life and needs therapy.”
Listen to the interview