Rapper Trina’s March 2000 single “Da baddest b*tch”, proclaimed her as the Queen of Hip hop. “Da baddest b*tch” was a controversial song that made way for many criticisms. The rapper’s song endorsed the idea of women referring to themselves as “bad b*tches”, promoted promiscuous behavior and encouraged females both young and old to use men for money. The very title of the song endorses the use of the expression “bad b*tches”. In the music industry, the used of the word “b*tch” is not uncommon. It is most commonly used by men as a means of degrading women. Female rappers, like Trina, try to change what is a degrading word and turn it into a compliment. Female rappers like herself use this “bad b*tch” persona as a defense mechanism. They call themselves these distasteful words before a man has the chance to do it. They see it as strength and rejoice in beating them to the punch. It is a dangerous game they are playing. Throughout Trina’s song “Da baddest b*tch” she referred to herself as a bad b*tch multiple times. “I'm representin' for the bitches/All eyes on your riches” Trina’s depiction of a “bad b*tch” in this song is a woman that is concerned with money and the possession of money; A woman that would do anything to make money no matter the cost. This message is a harmful one. The word “b*tch” is not empowering; it is demeaning. Women give men an excuse to refer to them as “b*tches” because women call themselves’ and other women “b*tches” and “bad b*tches”. Women need to wake up and really that they will not be respected by men or either other women with such behavior. Calling yourself a “b*tch” or “bad b*tch” is a welcome mat to disrespect. Women should resist the catchy lyrics and clever hooks of the songs both me... ... middle of paper ... ...terial things will never last. You will forever chase after material things if you choose to be a lover of vanity. In the lyrics, “the bigger the bank, the bigger the Benz/ The better the chance to get close to his rich friends.” Trina suggests not only that females use men for everything they have, but to not have any loyalty toward anyone. Her sole purpose for associating with men is to get their money and she would even use his friends if she has to. Trina’s intent was to create a song that liberated women from the double standards and stereotypical views placed upon them. Her song however can cause harm to young women that listen to take this song to heart. Instead of liberation, we are moved further down into the hole of degrading and devaluing women. Trina should’ve sent the message that these things were wrong. Instead she endorsed and encouraged them.
Objectification of women and misogyny is a common trend in song lyrics, but it is often socially accepted and further perpetuated. Finding a song in which the roles are reversed and a woman depicts a man as a sex object is incredibly difficult because when women try to break norms in the music industry, they are often criticized. In “Blah Blah Blah” by Kesha, she reverses the typical gender roles in song lyrics by objectifying men. Kesha has her own struggles within the male-dominated music industry because her producer sexually abused her and trapped her into a record deal. However, Kesha lost her court case, which illuminates gender issues within the music industry and the larger society. In 2010 when Kesha’s songs were popular, people weren’t aware of her battle with her producer. Instead, her lyrics classified her as more of a party figure and people even saw her as “trashy.” This song
Gaining recognition through Food & Liquor, Fiasco’s popularity has grown tremendously. Much of the reason was due to his approach to rap. While he does rap about mainstream themes such as sex, money, and drugs, Fiasco also shares his concerns about the American government and politics, foreign affairs, and racism in our culture, capturing a more mature audience’s attention. Through his music, Lupe Fiasco represents the voice of Modern America by informing his listeners about the modern corrupt practices in the United States and asserting his opinions on them through his music. In his song “Bitch Bad”, Fiasco describes how the vulgar word “bitch” is used throughout American society carelessly and in ways it shouldn’t be due it's degrading denotation. His song “Strange Fruition” reiterates the message in Billie Holiday’s largely popular song “Strange Fruit” and incorporates the modern take on racism in the United States. The messages in both these songs portray the depravity in present American culture.
In the song talks meanly about how a guy pretends to be someone who he isnt so that people get along whith him. Based upon a research about the song, its basically about how a guy takes to dinner pretndending to be a good person, in conclusion he drugs her so that he can take her to a hotel and raped her.
In the article “ From Fly to Bitches and Hoes” by Joan Morgan, she often speaks about the positive and negative ideas associated with hip-hop music. Black men display their manhood with full on violence, crime, hidden guilt, and secret escapes through drugs and alcohol. Joan Morgan’s article views the root causes of the advantage of misogyny in rap music lyrics. In the beginning of the incitement her desires shift to focus on from rap culture condemnation to a deeper analysis of the root causes. She shows the hidden causes of unpleasant sexism in rap music and argues that we need to look deeper into understanding misogyny. I agree with Joan Morgan with the stance that black men show their emotions in a different way that is seen a different perspective.
...ctive form of art. Both authors go in depth with the Don Imus incident which had caused a lot of controversial arguments throughout the rap music industry. On April 4, 2007 during a debate about the NCAA women’s basketball championship, Imus classified the women’s university basketball team,-Rutgers as “rough players”. While Bernard Mcguirk, his executive producer retorted that they were “uncensored h-‘s”. The conversation carried on with Imus labelling the women as “nappy-headed h-‘s”. Imus dismissed the insult as being a humorous, foolish comment. Imus stated that “nappy-headed h-‘s” is a term that rap artist use to describe African American women. Russell Simmons banned three racial and sexist epithets, which was the use of b---- and h- as well as the n-word. Wiltz and Johnson came to the conclusion that people are blaming the rap genre for society’s downfalls.
In the song she shoot him because she is sick of his stuff like him with the beating her and taking avenge “He’s drunk again, it’s time to fight same old s***, just on a different night she grabs the gun, she’s had enough Tonight she’ll find out how f***in’ tough is this man pulls the trigger fast as she can, never again “ This is a quote that make sense because he was beating her and she had no power to hit him back because she not as strong as him in any way shape or form. As this girl is going through this it show us how life really is because violence goes on every day because the world is a place no one want to be in. If you look at violence statists it clearly shows you how violence in pacts us. “Fathers a name yet haven’t earned yet you’re just a child with a temper Haven’t you heard don’t hit a woman kicking’ you’re a** would be a pleasure” this is a good one because some people like me take this to heart because if you hit a woman in front of me boy I tell you want and theirs many other people who think the same way. Most people were born and raised not to hit a woman because a lot of people are like this doesn’t mean there not people like (the man who hit her) out there and this what cause violence even more in the world this take it to the highest
Rap artists’ using women in an offensive way in the lyrics and videos is something that has recently been taking affect. Many decades ago, rappers did not rap about women the way rappers
There are many arguments surrounding the lyrics in hip-hop and how it may have an impact on today’s society. To begin with, the most debatable opinion is how the language may have an influence on youth. The images betrayed in the media and TV are often misconstrued and fabricated. For example, many rap lyrics are about drug use and in reality, some rappers are not drug users and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Similarly, women lyrics in hip-hop language can be two-fold. Lyrics of feminism and another of exploitation. This illustrates how the language in hip-hop takes away the dignity of women. The word “bitch” is considered profanity but often used frequently and acceptable for women in the hip-hop culture. More importantly, hip-hop is
“She ain’t nuttin but a hoochie mama…Smackin’ on your lips, put your hands on your hips…She ain’t nuttin but a hoochie mama…Oh I love those big brown eyes and the way you shake your thighs, acting like you’re so damn cute...” Rap music with lyrics like this play on the radio and in home stereos every day. Rap music pounds messages of sex and violence into the minds of young adults leaving behind their sexist and repetitive influential messages. Music has a very powerful influence on our emotions, moods, and behavior. Rap music influences teenagers negatively by increasing violent attitudes and promoting sexual aggression against women.
The chorus lines, saying ‘And if I could offer a kindly reminder / It’s not okay to grab women by the vagina’ refers to the offensive comments that Trump made about women during a recording for a television show in 2005. On a leaked tape, he said: ‘Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.’ The use of the word ‘vagina’ instead of ‘pussy’ - like Trump did - emphasises the vulgarity of Trump’s
This song represented the time in 1993 when women in the hip hop culture were not taken seriously as males, so Queen Latifah had to call the judgmental people out. U.N.I.T.Y has the significance impact of feminism, just like her first two albums as an artist. How every man, she states calls a women “ho” or “bitch” she defends by saying “Who you calling a bitch?”. Another song that has been recalled as an importance of women in hip hop is the song (9) “Give It To You” by Da Brat. “So let it go, Cause my shit is tight, Take it how I give it, And enjoy the night”, she is talking about the males, if they have something to say about the women in the rap industry they should let it go before things get out of hand. The importance of this song was that ladies in hip hop are able to fight back stronger. In the song (10) “Lost Ones” by Lauryn Hill is about her talking about a person she has a brutal honest message to. This song has an important impact on women who would want to be in the hip hop culture because it is the woman's choice to decide what she wants to do. In 1998, she releases this song to brings an influence to women, if feeling threatened by men, women should refuse to be treated in any type of way that is
In this day and age, of the biggest problems in America has become teen pregnancy. 68% of 18-year old have had sexual intercourse, while half of 17-year old have had sexual intercourse. To add to that, 6 in 10 girls between the ages of 18-19 become pregnant. While pregnancy rates among teens continue to rise, rappers continue to rap and call themselves “Playa’s” and rap about their, “bitches,” and sexual encounters. In a song titled “The B.I.G” Notorious B.I.G AKA Biggie Smalls says “Please don’t shoot up your guns, ‘cause one of these ladies will be havin’ my baby.” Of the 66% of the listeners of rap, who are under the age of 19, 26% of them are women. Biggie is promoting sexual activity, and a bad message is being sent out to all women. Another important fact is that every year 3 million teens; about 1 in 4 sexually experienced teens acquire a Sexually Transmitted Disease (S.T.D). Another rapper, “Masta’ Pimp” begins each song by saying “Pimpin’ Aint Easy!” In a song by Masta’ Pimp titled “The Way of Life,” Masta’ Pimp says “From the ghetto to where all my hooches at, I’ll ride for life, f$%# da condoms, ‘cause I’ll f$%@ all da’ bitches for life.” While Masta’ Pimp talks about his “hooches” in his ghetto, 60% of sexually active teens between the ages 15-19 ...
“The art of rap is deceptive. It seems so straightforward and personal and real that people read it completely literally, as raw testimony or autobiography. And sometimes the words we use, nigga, bitch, motherfucker, and the violence of the images overwhelms some listeners. It's all white noise to them till they hear a bitch or a nigga and then they run off yelling "See!" and feel vindicated in their narrow conception of what the music is about.”
Over time, rap music has influenced false perceptions of women. Most of the lyrics in rap music today strongly consist of women’s breasts or butt instead of her personality or her intelligence. These perceptions falsify women and portray them as sex symbols or material entities, which suggest that they are submissive or powerless. In the works of Roland Williams’ Advertising: The Magic System and Antonio Gamsci’s Hegemony Intellectuals and the State, can see that women are objectified through advertisement and seen as inferior to men. Rappers tend to talk about women in their lyrics in an offensive manner that falsifies the image of women as being promiscuous and sexually objectified. Rap music is a subculture in the sense that rappers portray the “Bling-Bling Lifestyle,” which is having expensive commodities, women and sex. An ideology of rap music and women is that women are reduced to objects for men’s pleasure. In songs derogatory terms such as “bitch” and “ho” are used to refer to women, which is magic in advertising because by calling women those terms men have power over women. Women are seen as inferior to men in most rap songs, which creates
Over the past few years rap has changed from what it used to lyrically wise. When hip-hop and rap was just coming to be the lyrics that were about coming up in the hood, the struggles of their life, and gang life. But in the recent years there has been a lot more controversy with the lyrics that are being said in the newer songs that are being produced. In 2005 Three 6 Mafia’s song “It’s Hard Out Here For a Pimp” won an Academy Award for best original song in a feature film for the movie Hustle and Flow. This song was performed at the Oscars and it had provoked a storm of criticism for glorifying the exploitation of women (Weitzer, 2009).