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    Hip Hop Degrade Women

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    Some believe that the Hip Hop industry manipulates the young minds of our new generation against women‚ do you? Back when Hip-Hop began‚ it was originally meant to send a message of unity. Doug E Fresh quoted "Hip-Hop is supposed to uplift and create‚ to educate people on a larger level and to make a change." Old-School Hip-Hop was about storytelling and poetry as well‚ where you’re from and telling your story in a good manner. Unfortunately Hip-Hop will never be the same as it was in the 90’s

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    Hip Hop Degrading Society Or Enhancing It? This question has been lingering around for many years and still to this day nobody has came to a simple conclusion.Hip Hop was brought to the people by Dj Kool Herc‚ when it all started Hip Hop was a just a way to connect with the community and build unity.He didn’t start Hip Hop to start violence and make rappers disrespect woman or any other assumptions people make of Hip Hop.One cannot argue this question with just opinions‚ one must provide real facts

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    Women in Hip Hop

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    “Woman in Hip-Hop” Although hip-hop generally contains male emcees‚ there has been a plethora of female emcees in the earlier hip-hop days that have made a positive impact on the hip-hop community and the culture itself. Hip-Hop started in 1970 by DJ Kool Herc‚ but it wasn’t until 1979 that the first female emcee emerged. Her name was Wendy Clark A.K.A “Lady B”. She began spinning hip-hop records on WHAT 1340 AM in Philadelphia. She expanded hip-hop outside of New York to Philadelphia.

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    Hip Hop is made up of powerful lyrics and beats that are not only entertaining‚ but relatable to the challenges that most of us face today‚ particularly African Americans. Yes‚ some hip hop songs are on the indecent side‚ but that is not enough to say that hip hop degrades our society. Hip hop is one of the most popular and pursued musical categories in the United States. People can not take a few degrading hip hop songs and say that all hip hop music degrades the society. That is not fair to all

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    Hip Hop and Black Women

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    especially for black women. Even with many new genres arising from the contemporary music scene ‚ hip-hop has maintained it’s leading popularity. In Jennifer McLune’s “Hip-Hop’s Betrayal of Black Women”‚ Hip-Hop is portrayed as a negative contender in the advocacy of female activism. Through the argument in this article‚ it can be understood that hip-Hop music more often that not‚ degrades women and what it means to be female. Any person who has taken time to listen to more than one Hip-Hop‚ or rap song

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    Women In Hip Hop Culture

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    Hip Hop has gotten too hard core‚ it’s only about misogynist and materialism. Back in the day rappers had more to talk about than guns‚ money‚ jewels‚ cars and women. In today’s Hip Hop‚ it glorifies the ghetto‚ gangs‚ guns‚ money and jewelry which reinforces the tradition of the black stereotypes. Gangster rap is described as the angriest type of rap music where it glamorizes sex and violence. N.W.A was one of the most controversial rap groups in the world of hip hop who are known as the creators

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    Essay On Women In Hip Hop

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    The Hip Hop industry has presented women in several ways‚ both derogatory and powerful. Women have been hyper sexualized through their roles in the counterparts’ music. The misogyny and oppression of woman was repeated throughout music but in the process giving woman the boost to come out as their own acts in the subculture. Female rappers such as Queen Latifah‚ MC Lyte‚ Lil’ Kim‚ Salt N Pepa‚ and Missy Elliot were some very popular artists ranging from the 80s-90s empowering woman and freely expressing

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    Hip Hop

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    Hip-hop reflects the truth‚ and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It ’s a platform where we could offer information‚ but it ’s also an escape.”- Busta Rhymes (Hip Hop Quotes) Hip hop does contain a largely negative influence into the American society by black men getting into violence‚ assaulting black women physically and concerning about their education‚ their employment and their incarceration. The hip hop music influence young black

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    Black Women vs Hip-Hop

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    “Black Women VS Hip-Hop” Crystal Smith once wrote that “Images of black women in hip-hop culture make it more likely for them to be viewed as targets to be defaced and abused.” This statement is confirmed true there are many African American women in the hip-hop culture that are disrespected or abused in some type of way during the making of a video or even the lyrics of a song. There are many ways African American women of the hip-hop culture are being abused and disrespected. Some video women

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    Hip Hop

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    Hip-hop over the past three decades has greatly developed and spread throughout many countries of the world. It is widely listened to today‚ especially by the youth. Its unique musical style has captivated people of all ages and more importantly‚ races. Hip-hop is a style all its own‚ original in its music‚ clothing‚ and language. Regardless of culture‚ background‚ and native countries‚ hip-hop has made a name for itself among all people. Perhaps one of the biggest ideas concerning the hip-hop phenomenon

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