The Role Of Misogyny In Hip Hop Culture

I completely agree with this quote and the sentiments it encompasses. Misogyny runs rampant through both hip hop music and hip hop culture, and reveal much larger problems that still exist in our society. Examples of misogyny can be seen in almost every aspect of hip hop culture, and in all four pillars of hip hop B-Boying/B-Gigling, DJing. MC’ing and Graffiti. Misogyny can be seen in B-Boying/B-Gigling in the documentary All The Ladies Say. It describes many of the struggles that are faced by women trying to get into the B-Boying /B-girling world. Dancers say that they struggle finding people who are willing to teach them, are not respected by others in the community, and are seen exclusively by their gender, and are therefore are often pitted against each other, only deepening the divide between women in the game, and consequently between women and the art form itself. These ideas of not being respected in their field, being refused teaching, and being seen only for their gender can also be seen in DJing, in the story of DJ Kuttin Kandy, and in Graffiti in words of lady pink. In MC’ing, which has developed into the modern genre of rap music has the most severe examples of misogyny. Misogyny and “womanhating” pervade every …show more content…
An example of this can be seen in the article “Love Hurts” By Elizabeth Mendez Berry. In this article she discusses many stories of women being abused by people in the hip hop industry, and one of the threads that ties all the stories together is that all of the women received backlash for simply talking about how they were regularly abused, with some even losing their jobs just for speaking out about the injustices they face. Another example of this can be seen in the story of Dee Barnes, who was assaulted by Dr. Dre and consequently lost her job, and a lot of her influence on the hip hop