Seal raps rappers’ views of women

Mark Sage, New York

Seal, who recently became engaged to model Heidi Klum, attacked fellow black artists for making videos which treat women as "sexual objects."

"I haven't had a lot of contact or dialogue with rappers," he said. "It's sad when you see the rappers on TV and in the videos making these derogatory videos towards women ... kind of like sexual objects.

"And also portraying their idea of success to be 'all you gotta do is make a rap record, get the money and get the ... cars and that is success' and 'look at me, I'm killing it now'," he said. Seal, the son of Nigerian parents, told Sister 2 Sister magazine: "It's so sad because we're damaging our own. Like, in different cultures, you would never see that. Take for example the Jewish culture. They've been persecuted just like the black people?

But you never see them eating their own. They don't. But we will. "I really feel that there is a responsibility and what goes around comes around."

Seal, aged 41, who was born in London, calls Klum's baby Leni, fathered by her ex-boyfriend, Flavio Briatore, his "daughter."