Less Hustle More Flow: The Role Of Women In Hip-Hop Culture

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Women’s role in the music industry is always perceived have since they are usually shown undressed and dancing seductively. Instead, of adolescence, them fully closed and taking bigger roles like rapping or even if they are dancing they should be a bit more covered. Also, when they are addressed it’s usually in a rude manner rather than being talked in a positive manner or even talk feel like when they fell in love or a positive experience they experienced with a female.
However, they usually would sing how they want them to shake their buttocks on their lower parts. According to an excerpt from the book, Homegirls make noise by Gwendolyn Pough article Less Hustle More Flow: The Role of Women in Hip-Hop Culture by Beatrice Derrick states,
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The following excerpt is from a thesis Sexism and Misogyny in American Hip-Hop Culture By Jane Kathrine Larsen stating, “Stereotypical representations of women in hip-hop culture, along with degrading terminology and the ―slang‖ that is associated with these stereotypes as a foundation for my analyses. Traditionally, the labeling of black women has been closely tied to sexual characteristics, as it has been used to describe their identity as exhibiting ―animalistic‖ or primitive traits. In the vocabulary of rap music, the jezebel-term has been replaced by a number of other descriptive terms, frequently referring to women in a derogatory manner. The tendency in rap of referring to women as ―bitches,‖ for example, is commonly found alongside other colorful and often graphic terms used in describing women”(Larsen 48). Furthermore, since women have been addressed as sexual objects for decades everyone thinks is normal to keep addressing them the same way, but there are women who do not like to be addressed as such and when they do call out the man that is objectifying them by cat calling them the man get aggressive or hostile and they would start cursing them out to bring these women …show more content…
However, eventually it did develop into the objectification of women. The following quote is from Hip-hop's influence on the identity development of black female college students: A literature review by West Henry states, “The negative impact that modern-day hip-hop music has had on the perception of Black culture, it has also been criticized for perpetuating the internalized oppression of Black women. In essence, the overt and pervasive disrespect and denigration of Black women within contemporary hip-hop culture has been suggested as being devastating to the psyche and identity development of Black women (Henry, 2008). Furthermore, Black women are living in a state of psychological distress due to the many competing and conflicting perspectives about what it means to be a Black woman in contemporary society”(Henry 238). To rephrase, we should uplift black women rather then just follow the wave hip-hop artist are making when they disrespect women which are causing self-doubt and stress of thinking they are not good

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