Rap Video Analysis
SEXUAL IMAGES IN RAP VIDEOS
FOXY BROWN AND DA BRAT
Hip-hop is fast becoming the expressive manifestation of the past and the present medium by which African American and Latino-American express their views .Black women have less access to power, wealth and protection and have used sex as a means to gain that access. Today women in hip-hop define their own worth on what they can do by how much skin they show on TV. This presentation and subsequent paper is takes a critical look at two female hip-hop artists had how their images on hip-hop videos have changed over the years. The two different people that I am comparing are Foxy Brown, who started her career at a young age of 13, and Dab Brat who also started her career as a teenager. …show more content…
Female images in rap and hip-hop video show and portray its artist as either being showgirl sex objects, tomboy action hero, a means of librating force from men and a response to male fantasies .The different images that we see on rap and hip-hop video are the result of what manager and producer what people to see and hear. These mangers are males who decide what stimulates sexually arousal to to another male is or himself and tell their female artist what to do ,how to dress .They also inform their female artist that they are in for the money and that in the long run what are they (the manager) getting out off all this help.
Foxy Brown was just a teen when she bust into the world of rap and hip-hop featuring in other artist s music video when she was just 13 years old.
One can image what she had to go through to get to where she is. It is well noted that women in rap and hip-hop videos are exploited for sex before getting the "Gig" they deserve. As a beautiful young woman, Foxy Brown moved up the ladder very fast and landed her first Album at 16. She is described as being sexy-crazed, Mafioso loving, drug-obsessed performer who is always in some sexual provoking others. Moreover, over the year, her clothing has not changed but worsened, revealing more of her skin. She released Ill Na Na at age 15 that contained lyrics that were more explicit for her age. Foxy Browns Debuted on Billboard #1 and was in competition with Lil' Kim, another new entry into the music world, who was also revealing more of her skin. She considers herself as going through a transformation from silent to domination role and landed her at six #1 on the Billboard chats. Foxy Brown's self-directed video "Hot Spot," the she shows booty line in a tiny metal bikini. The camera pans her every itch of her body. However, below her smooth thighs where the knee pads, a pair of sneakers and, uh, tube socks. The message she is putting out there is that she has control of her affairs now that she is both sexy, and a hardcore rapper. The video has caught Brown's body torn between the two images of women in rap: showgirl sex objects and
tomboy action heroes.
The second artist I intent to compare is Da Brat, a Chicago native who has practically dressed as a man for most of her childhood. a Brats image shows that she considers herself a tomboy .She first performed with Kris Kross, a male rap group from Chicago who also wore large jeans. Her male-look image is being attributed to her manager Jermaine Dupre who liked her for what she was. Over the course of her career she collaborated with heavy hitters Missy Elliott and Mariah Carey and become first popular female gangsta rapper. In looking at the image of Da Brat, we are going to look at her in the nineties and twenties. Her nineties image compressed of typically seen wearing baggy cargo pants, having backwards baseball cap, a nose stud and using vulgarity in her rap. her twenties image showed making mixes with singers like Marie Carey, a very beautiful and sexy women, change her persona and sexing her image and exposing her nipple on MTV. In a couple of her pictures, she wears a bikini and holds her breast in the palm of her hand. This particular picture was saying one thing "I have some breast too".
In all my research, I have found out that even though sex sells, that is not always the case for some people. Da Brat song sales have gone down since she changed her image from being a hardcore rap to a sexy rapper.
FOXY BROWN AND DA BRAT
Hip-hop is fast becoming the expressive manifestation of the past and the present medium by which African American and Latino-American express their views .Black women have less access to power, wealth and protection and have used sex as a means to gain that access. Today women in hip-hop define their own worth on what they can do by how much skin they show on TV. This presentation and subsequent paper is takes a critical look at two female hip-hop artists had how their images on hip-hop videos have changed over the years. The two different people that I am comparing are Foxy Brown, who started her career at a young age of 13, and Dab Brat who also started her career as a teenager. …show more content…
Female images in rap and hip-hop video show and portray its artist as either being showgirl sex objects, tomboy action hero, a means of librating force from men and a response to male fantasies .The different images that we see on rap and hip-hop video are the result of what manager and producer what people to see and hear. These mangers are males who decide what stimulates sexually arousal to to another male is or himself and tell their female artist what to do ,how to dress .They also inform their female artist that they are in for the money and that in the long run what are they (the manager) getting out off all this help.
Foxy Brown was just a teen when she bust into the world of rap and hip-hop featuring in other artist s music video when she was just 13 years old.
One can image what she had to go through to get to where she is. It is well noted that women in rap and hip-hop videos are exploited for sex before getting the "Gig" they deserve. As a beautiful young woman, Foxy Brown moved up the ladder very fast and landed her first Album at 16. She is described as being sexy-crazed, Mafioso loving, drug-obsessed performer who is always in some sexual provoking others. Moreover, over the year, her clothing has not changed but worsened, revealing more of her skin. She released Ill Na Na at age 15 that contained lyrics that were more explicit for her age. Foxy Browns Debuted on Billboard #1 and was in competition with Lil' Kim, another new entry into the music world, who was also revealing more of her skin. She considers herself as going through a transformation from silent to domination role and landed her at six #1 on the Billboard chats. Foxy Brown's self-directed video "Hot Spot," the she shows booty line in a tiny metal bikini. The camera pans her every itch of her body. However, below her smooth thighs where the knee pads, a pair of sneakers and, uh, tube socks. The message she is putting out there is that she has control of her affairs now that she is both sexy, and a hardcore rapper. The video has caught Brown's body torn between the two images of women in rap: showgirl sex objects and
tomboy action heroes.
The second artist I intent to compare is Da Brat, a Chicago native who has practically dressed as a man for most of her childhood. a Brats image shows that she considers herself a tomboy .She first performed with Kris Kross, a male rap group from Chicago who also wore large jeans. Her male-look image is being attributed to her manager Jermaine Dupre who liked her for what she was. Over the course of her career she collaborated with heavy hitters Missy Elliott and Mariah Carey and become first popular female gangsta rapper. In looking at the image of Da Brat, we are going to look at her in the nineties and twenties. Her nineties image compressed of typically seen wearing baggy cargo pants, having backwards baseball cap, a nose stud and using vulgarity in her rap. her twenties image showed making mixes with singers like Marie Carey, a very beautiful and sexy women, change her persona and sexing her image and exposing her nipple on MTV. In a couple of her pictures, she wears a bikini and holds her breast in the palm of her hand. This particular picture was saying one thing "I have some breast too".
In all my research, I have found out that even though sex sells, that is not always the case for some people. Da Brat song sales have gone down since she changed her image from being a hardcore rap to a sexy rapper.