Summary Of The Year Hip-Hop Invented Sex

Megan Carpentier, the author of The Year Hip-Hop Invented Sex, failed to support her thesis in a well written manner. However, her main point is correct and describes an undeniable modern revolution amongst Hip Hop and R&B music. Hip-Hop artists have recently changed the meanings behind their blunt and explicit lyrics. In the article The Year Hip-Hop Invented Sex, Megan Carpentier describes the pre-revolution and specific details of this iconic year. According to Carpentier, before sex was “invented”, women were treated as accessories of success. (They are almost treated as if they are money in the idea of the more one has correlates to how successful they are and that women are more desirable the better they are at pleasing men.) In the turning point of her writing, she begins to introduce the female perspective on the topic by using examples from popular women rappers of the early 2000s. She translates Lil’ …show more content…
Her point then begins to stray off topic which drastically decreases the quality of her article. However, she continues on and later uses a Jeremih song from 2009 as her main evidence that “hip-hop invented sex”. It was his lyrics that introduced the idea of focusing sexual pleasure on women that changed how sex was perceived. Carpentier uses great examples to support that the popular Jeremih song “Birthday Sex” which started a chain reaction of male rappers putting the spotlight on women’s needs in bed as well as a competition of who can pleasure women best. Once she brings her article to a close, she begins to stray away from her main points