Examples Of Hyper-Masculinity

Tough Guise “When you think about American society, the notion of violent masculinity is at the heart of American identity. The preoccupation with Jesse James and the outlaw, the rebel, much of that is associated in the American mindset, the collective imagination of the nation, with the expansion of the frontier. In the history of American social imagination, the violent man using the gun to defend his family, his kid, and kind, becomes a suitable metaphor for the notion of manhood.” In Byron Hurts’ documentary Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes, Byron examines the representation of manhood in hip-hop culture. Hyper-masculinity is one of the biggest troubling aspects of hip-hop music on television. It's been argued that this aspect has cause guys to put fear in another man heart, feminize another man and last but certainly not lease promotes violence against women.
Throughout the documentary Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes, Byron tries to break down hyper-masculinity in hip-hop music on the video. The aspects of
Behind the lyrics and the beats lies history, before the music these musicians came from the past, where drugs and abuse were everywhere. The majority of these boys were raised in single income homes, mostly with no parents or single mothers. When these boys were forced to become men at an early age only those who had the motivation to have something better, started selling drugs and when they realized that they were the men of the house they started to feel needed, dependable, and as a leader. They are so obsessed with the power they are withholding that they started going around their own neighborhood showing off who they were, whether if it was by flashing their guns, fighting, and even killing these young boys felt as if they had to instill fear not only in another’s man heart but in everyone around them. Chuck