THE HIP HOP WARS: Hip Hop Demeans Women ““I said ‘Bitch‚ why you such a stupid hoe?’ You lil’ bitch‚ you never could fuck with this. And every bitch that don’t like it‚ she can suck my dick.” These lyrics were taken from the song “Call her a bitch” by the rapper Too Short. With song lyrics like this one‚ it is very difficult for people both biased and unbiased to hip hop to even try to defend it. Although it is not the only music genre to have lines objectifying women‚ it is once again‚ as with
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BRINGING HIP HOP BACK TO THE 70’s You’re standing amongst a crowd in a circle‚ side by side‚ next to people you don’t know. Crowds going wild in New York‚ South Bronx and your bumping to the music‚ with an extensive amount of energy that you’re allowing yourself to give to this one individual in the center whose dancing‚ break-dancing. The boy is called a b-boy and few people know this but that it what started this fascinating music called early Hip-hop. During the 1970’s‚ Hip hop was starting
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Jonathon Bidelspach AFA 2000 Unit IV Paper Hip-hop music is known as one of the most popularizing and popular genres in our modern society. Most of hip-hop music is considered vulgar‚ offensive‚ and meaningless‚ which can be easily displayed by hip-hop artists such as Soulja Boy and Lil’ Wayne. However‚ who gets lost in translation is the artist who conveys true meaning in their lyrics and sticks with the original roots of the music. For hip-hop’s short life‚ there has been dramatic change in
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society. Hip Hop is a genre of music that has significantly grown the last couple of decades. It’s increased popularity has brought it to the forefront of globalization. Technological advances has made it easy for Hip Hop to spread out globally. This occurrence of globalization is a key example that as our cultural borders are broken down by technology‚ our own cultural and social practices become fluid. Although there are many positive and negative comments about the globalization of Hip Hop‚ it is
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Back then‚ when I hear “Hip Hop”‚ I associated it with egoistic rappers and gang violence. It was my least favorite music genre because rap artists only rap about their shopping list and other meaningless topics. It came to the point where I asked‚ “What is Hip Hop?” I was so curious that I decided to use it as an English research topic. From that point on‚ my opinion on Hip Hop changed completely due to the fact that there’s more to it. As I researched on what Hip Hop is‚ I found out that it isn’t
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Hip hop music‚ also called hip-hop‚[1][2] rap music‚[2][3][4] or hip-hop music‚[2][5] is a music genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping‚ a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted.[2] It developed as part of hip hop culture‚ a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements: MCing/rapping‚ DJing/scratching‚ break dancing‚ and graffiti writing.[6][7][8] Other elements include sampling (or synthesis)‚ and beatboxing. While often used to refer to rapping
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many black women feel that many or even all black men are being stolen by the Caucasian women. Most black women believe that it is best for there to be pure black couples so the generation can evolve. Others say that while that black women are angry because they have been hurt by black men leaving them for women. But my opinion‚ like others‚ is that I don’t really care as much or even bother to think about interracial couples. The essay‚ “Betrayal” by Bebe Campbell is about a group of women coming
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Stereotypes of Women in the Hip-Hop Culture Have you ever wondered what it would be like if there were no stereotyping in America. Stereotyping has been around for quite a long time and women in particular have been stereotyped for numerous reasons. There are various things in society today that put women down for the things they do. Hip hop music and their music videos have been around since the 1980’s and continues to be very popular among young people‚ especially the young men and women of America
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Hip-Hop Music and Its Negative Impact on African American Women Irma Royster Sociology 370-01 Professor Woods 4 March‚ 2011 ABSTRACT In the world of hip-hop music‚ the message for young women is that in order to be considered beautiful‚ you have to take your clothes off or allow yourself to be demeaned and degraded by the rappers/hip-hop artist in the entertainment field. People outside the African American community see these portrayals of
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In the hip hop video ‘Wet’ by Snoop Dogg‚ women are shown dancing together wearing little more than a bikini. The woman are usually shown either dancing sexually together or grinding against something‚ trying their best to either get the males attention or to please them. The video shows that women are not being valued for anything other than their appearance/actions. They get judged on what they’re doing rather than what their personality is. Woman in hip hop videos are portrayed as sex objects
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