False Representation Of Women In Rap Music Essay

The False Advertisement of Women in Rap Music 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

Rap has pretty much made it okay for people to talk about women with such disrespectful terms. Rappers such as Eminem, Rick Ross and DMX disrespect women in many of their songs and are criticized for treating women with so much disrespect. In Eminem’s Love the Way You Lie domestic violence is portrayed in its lyrics, which has caused Eminem to be a hot topic in media and his stand with women. Recently another song of his has landed him in turmoil, in which he raps about raping Iggy Azalea (Rivera). It’s almost as if society today has accepted the treatment of women in this manner, since it is justified in many rap songs and