Analysis Of Hip Hop

Hip Hop a grass movement started in 1974 in the South Bronx in New York City. Created to end gang violence, a voice for the underrepresented minority. Rap music is critical to understanding the hip hop generation’s gender crisis, a crisis between sexes that allows African American males to blatantly disrespect African American women for the sake of the culture. The consistent referencing of African American women as ‘bitches’ and ‘hos’ and the hyper sexualization of their bodies is harmful to the African American community. These images instill that it is alright to represent black women in this nature, and harmful to the young girls who are intaking all these negative images. Harmful to both the perspective of young men and women Hip-Hop is like a pillar in the African American culture. It represents how each generation views themselves in this society and how they internalized these narratives. In this essay I will summarize the main arguments in Chapter 7 of Gender talk , discuss the creation and deconstruction on views

He did multiple interviews from celebrities to regular civilians. He created this film because he had a love for hip hop but was an activist. There was an interview on the video from Spelman College regarding the protest of the misogynistic video of Rapper Nelly, who is seen swiping a credit card in a girl’s buttocks in his music video “Tip Drill”. Rapper Nelly never commented but canceled plans to hold the bone marrow drive at Spelman. He then goes on to show BET’s Spring Fling in Daytona Florida. It was disgusting to see men lusting after women, touching women who did not want to be touched. In the interview with one young man he justified his actions by saying “look how they dress.” The objectification of women in hip hop has taught young men to view women as sex objects for their own