What We Forget When We Talk About Hip Hop's Women Problem Summary

In today’s society, most people would associate hip hop with misogyny and violence. Zebra Balay’s Huffington article, “What We Forget When We Talk about Hip-Hop's Women Problem” focuses on the double standards of misogyny found within hip hop culture as a way to suggest that music critics should analyze other musical genres and American society. Blay’s appropriate choice of words combined with the use of other authors’ articles throughout her article, builds her credibility and appeal to the readers emotions. However, her use of exemplification to establish the issue of misogyny within the music industry, creating an ineffective argument.
In her article, Balay begins with discussing the demonization and humanization of the hip hop group, N.W.A, through the biopic, Straight Outta Compton. She focuses on the N.W.A. as a way to relate to the readers, who may be fans of their music or they are anticipating to watch it in …show more content…
She directs her readers to various other articles, as a way to provide background information on the examples she provided throughout the article, by doing this, she sets up a reader-based prose. Also by providing readers with background information, she invites the readers to participate into the critique of the music industry, while simultaneously showing that she is knowledgeable on her topic and abled to have a valid opinion. Her diction throughout the article provided this piece with a critical tone. She involves race into her argument, her goal is to provoke the reader enough to make them see things her way. She uses words like “universally hating women,” “disturbing,” and “super sexist industry,” these phrases help her argument by making the reader feel appalled that this is still happening. She successfully attempts to imply that the music is the representation of a specific society’s values and acceptable