The Role Of Sex In Rap Music

Music is a medium that reaches a wide number and variety of people. Some genres are marketed more towards a specific audience than others. Rap music has influenced the thoughts and behaviors of young African Americans since its creation in 1970. West African artists told stories with drum accompaniments which later on became popular with the urban youth on the east coast, who performed it as street art. Like everything else in pop culture rap music has evolved with the technology of today, however, there is still a solemn underlying tone in the genre that had been present for centuries.
Rap music and the message it sends has been embraced by African American youth since the beginning of its time. Sex has always been what attracts the most consumers no matter what product is being sold, music is no different. In the case of rap music, sex is one of the most controversial topics that have effects on both the female and the male population. The exploitation of the African American female comes in many forms from simple lyrics in a song, to having women half naked dancing in a music video. Many rappers over the last thirty years promote the dehumanization of women’s bodies. These songs paint images of women being nothing more than sex toys and play things for men simply because they

Fans can now, within minutes or seconds of hearing a new song, let the artist know exactly how they feel about their songs. Rapper Tyga recently put out a song about his relations with Kylie Jenner called “Stimulated” which was received by disapproving ears mostly because Jenner was underage days before the song was put out. Twitter users immediately started bashing both the artist and Jenner for the song and video with most tweets full of disgusted users. Some even went as far as directing their distaste for Tyga and his song calling him a pedophile and a great deal of other