Lyric discussion by ceej1979 

Cover art for Brown Sugar lyrics by Rolling Stones, The

Man, you guys are dense!

“Gold coast Slave ship”, “Market down in New Orleans”, “Scarred Slave trader is doing all right, you can hear him whip the women, just around midnight”.

Aint it pretty obvious.

Probably the Stones most controversial song. Especially for release in America.

It’s about the practice of slave-rape, that happened a lot in the deep south in America, right up until the 1960s.

Basically, white slave owners, who raped the young black women they owned.

The first verse refers to a slave owner raping/abusing a young black women he owns.

The second verse refers to the white house boy, in an English stately home, getting his sexual gratification from the slaves.

The last verse is Jagger himself saying, he’s no saint himself, and gets the same gratification from black women, as a white man. Of course, in loving relationships, but as I said, it’s a very very controversial song.

Basically about white men’s terrible history with black women

I think this is the most accurate description.

I'd like to add that the lines "how come you taste so good" refers to cunnilingus and "just like a young girl should" refers to underage sex.

@ceej1979 what about the history of black on white crime that's rampant? Blacks owned slaves too why didn't you mention that? We didn't start slave trade but we ended it with countless 'white men and boys dying' because of it. And Lincoln was WHITE too. Either you have white guilt or you're a black holding on to victimhood status despite us voting for a black Muslim hating American TWICE

@ceej1979 Slave rape happened up until 1960? We didn't have slaves after 1865.