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Jersey Prudes Can't Handle Sexually Suggestive Billboard

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Photo via NJ.com/The Star-Ledger

Rapper T.I.'s clothing line, AKOO, has put up a billboard in Newark that has locals fanning themselves and suffering spells! The advertisement shows a woman holding on to a man's unbuttoned jeans whilst his hand is placed lovingly against the back of her head. Those gutter-minded Jerseyites think these two had, or are just about to engage in, oral sex. Blush! The image hangs above a major intersection, and Eyewitness News reports that while "people on the street said they never noticed the billboard before," they had plenty of opinions once it was pointed out.

A Rutgers marketing professor asks, “What’s the message here? ‘If I wear these clothes more women will want to have sex with me.'” (Sounds like AKOO may have a new customer!) Meanwhile, City Council President Mildred Crump told NJ.com: “I’m so sick of people seeing Newark as a place where they can do whatever they want. They think they can put it in a black community and nobody is going to say or do anything.” But these sexually suggestive billboards are everywhere (underage orgy, anyone?)—in fact, this one that hung on Houston Street may have even been worse.

Mayor Corey Booker addressed the billboard, saying, "So often when I am out in the community I see kids wearing their pants too low... I will work with my city council to see if we can address it so we don't see these types of advertisements displayed in our city in the near future." Hey, maybe that girl is just trying to pull that guy's jeans up... maybe she's part of the solution.

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  • Tinderbox

    Jen Carlson- you sound like you're all for billboards like this.

  • NannyState

    Things are looking up in Newark: the hookers are finally ready for their closeup.

  • 1stephanie

    I think Akoo's advertising strategy is to irritate people. Their Flatbush billboard is Chris Brown making his pooping face.

  • Nice name: "Mildred Crump".

  • whitecastlerock

    Akoo? I am more offended by the stupidity of that brand name. Did TI come up with then while he was in the pen?

  • beardofbees

    Isn't she merely trying to defy the laws of gravity and hold his pants up?

  • Pachinko

    Misogynistic male advertisers and dumb women selling themselves for cash.

  • NannyState

    LOL @ CBS

  • elpollodiablo

    I like how the bar in front of the woman's mouth in this photo makes it look like some r-word sex is about to go down

    Which is way hottt

  • esmerelda fitzmonster

    pants on the ground

    pants on the ground

    lookin like a fool with your pants on the ground.

  • hotstepper

    work it sister. girl got some DSLs.

  • longacre

    But does she have nice curves for her Icebergs?

  • protopop

    Why are we so sure that that's a man?

  • John_Matrix

    what is it with black clothing lines and oral copulation?

    i remember seeing those bus ads about 'getting brain' by wearing some awful clothes.

    it pissed me off to no end.

  • krinkle cut fires

    Wasn't that ad for the NYPL? I seem to recall they had a bus ad that they didn't crossreference with the Urban Dictionary a few years back.

  • krinkle cut fires

    oops... right, that makes much more sense.

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