All in all, misogyny within rap music must be evaluated within the context of larger society, including patriarchy’s wide influence and the historical struggle for Black men to assert their masculinity in…
When Shawn “Jay Z” Carter and Kanye West proclaimed their membership to the new black elite, they were being modest in their declaration because the Hip Hop echelon had arrived long before 2011. Many of them had not only accumulated a vast amount of wealth a decade prior, but took part in the shift in qualities that determined ones elite status. This alteration from the previous black elite during the fourth wave first emerged when the Hip Hop generation was born. It ultimately came full circle when black and brown youth in urban ghettos in New York united through privations and the fervent need to alter their grim futures.…
I agree with the author of Hip Hop Fashion, Masculine Anxiety, and the discourse of Americana, Nicole R. Fleetwood. Although I don’t regularly listen to hip-hop, it’s evident to even me that within the community there are several unspoken rules that must be followed to make it in the industry. In regards to fashion, the author discusses the way in which style and aesthetics are presented in hip-hop. The author goes on to write how an obsession to keep up this aesthetic is then brought forth, so much so that the “look” of hip-hop becomes the focal point. In both lyrics and music videos, the idea of having a lot of money and being able to afford nice clothes, cars, and houses is presented constantly.…
When the era of rap began, many artists produced music about social and economic catastrophes and rap was pretty much music for self-expression and creativity. Today’s hip-hop is all about materialistic things, drugs, crime, and the exploitation of women. The second and third criteria for women in hip-hop coincide with each other because I am differentiating female rappers of the past and female rappers of today. For many years female rappers felt that it was only right to step up to the plate and speak their peace within the hip-hop community. Unfortunately, with positive aspects came the negative when female artists were degrading us women more than the men.…
In her essay on hip-hop, Bettina Love reaffirms this point when she says, “Corporate boardrooms create much of rap’s music and culture, and they then mask and disseminate it to youth as street culture or “real” hip-hop.” (Love, 18) Brown Sugar is the culmination of African-American frustration with the status quo. It has a positive impact in forming the ideology of hip-hop in African American youth because it stresses themes of self-discovery, love, and freedom of expression. “When the characters choose love, their relationship with hip hop also falls into place.” (Sanchez, 38)…
In the documentary we learn “Hip-Hope presents a very rigid and narrow version of manhood- one that suggests that to be a real man you must be strong and tough, you must have a lot of women and money, you must always be in control, and you must always dominate women and other men.” Hip-hop enforces the ideas of how to be strong and how to be respected. Major record dealers produce albums, which help the idea of being strong and not to be a “pussy”. As long these albums are being produced the bad idea of hip hop…
Rodriquez (2007) maintains that “colour-blindness” is such a powerful ideological framework that in regards to hip-hop, it provides Caucasian participants with the “discursive resource to plausibly replace the message of black emancipation with one of universal emancipation ”. Rodriquez illustrates how by removing “racially coded meanings embedded in the music and replacing them with colour-blind…
The History of Hip Hop Today, Hip Hop is a worldwide genre that has swept the globe with passion and soul. What started out as a generally “black culture genre,” is now accepted and done by every race and culture, and even in different languages. Rappers such as Run DMC, Doug E Fresh, Grandmaster Flash, and Kurtis Blow put a stamp on the Hip Hop world and gave it its popularity and momentum. The history of Hip Hop and how people used Hip Hop as a voice for African-Americans, shows how the evolution of Hip Hop is a great thing for the world. What is Hip Hop, and what is the history of it?…
Introduction In our modern age of mass communication, the keys of culture and social values have been handed over to personalities in the media. Historically, the American media industry has significantly been criticised for its underrepresentation of minorities and even recently has this aspect been everso highlighted with the many debates about instances of issues relating to whitewashing in films, portrayal of stereotypes and lack of recognition for minority talent. In certain pockets of the entertainment industry such as Hip-Hop, persons of color have been key figures in taking the culture forward. One such figure whose influence has spread over to other social structures of politics, social issues of minorities and religion is the rapper,…
Lester’s main argument he makes in Hip Hop and the Neoliberal Turn, is that there is this sense of increasing growth of neoliberalism present in black politics. He argues hip hop is the response to the neoliberal shift found in US cities, this is seen from increases of financialization and deregulation, cuts to public funding and the push for the free market (p.2). Lester proves this by relating hip hop to past workers songs of resistance and solidarity (p.2). He argues rap is now seen as the new post-industrial work songs, promoting resistance, just as seen years before in the enslavement of African Americans in the US within field labour songs of justice (p.3). An example used was with Kanye and Jay Z and their lyrics and songs revolving…
There are a lot of cases of the way this talk flows inside pop culture, yet likely the most evident are the contention encompassing white rapper Eminem, and rehashed discourses about whether he constituted another Elvis Presley, appropriating and benefitting off stolen dark culture. While I will cover the racial legislative issues of this move in the explanation in more detail in Chapter second, my talk of the representation regulatory issues of Beat Street in the accompanying part will likewise address the way race built in hip-jump (Pichardo, 2015). During this period, the creation of movies portraying the different components of Hip Hop culture got to be distinctly pervasive and included Breakin, Wildstyle along with Krush Groove. This included media introduction rapped music to get away from the containments of dark neighborhoods and ventured into white rural zones.…
Instead of rapping about the ‘hood’ and getting involved in gang violence, these new artists are talking more about fashion and their relationships with other people. Instead of dressing in loose and baggy shirts with sagging jeans, artists are dressing in tighter and more fitting clothing. The rules and conduct of hip hop has progressed to a point where it is acceptable to wear types of queer inflected styles. Penney finishes his argument by point out that there need to be further revisions to hip hop’s conception of masculinity within African…
But what does seem new is that the stigma attached to rappers and their sometimes unwanted endorsements has faded. I wonder if this has more to do with with the marketing power of these musicians, now that fashion has become such a big business, than a genuine appreciation of their taste. One needs only to be reminded of those recent incidents of racial profiling—for instance, when two black youths were accosted by the police for legally and soundly buying fashion goods at a prestigious department store—to realize that any claim of ‘blackness’ being in fashion is based more on gimmicks and fads than any true solidarity or understanding of the black…
Research Paper Over the past forty years, hip-hop has emerged as one of the biggest contributors to American culture. American youth today use hip-hop music to voice the social, political, economic, and cultural conditions in their lives. Hip-hop today also reflects its origin from working-class African-Americans in New York City, and continues to serve as the voice of these people. As the popularity of hip-hop has grown, its marketability has also risen.…
All rappers degrade black women and the people who support these corrupt rappers hate black women also. Jennifer Mclune’s “Hip-Hop’s Betrayal of Black Women” creates this biased inference within its readers after reading the text. Mclune is a writer, activist, and librarian that lives in Washington D.C. Her article, “Hip-Hop’s Betrayal of Black Women,” first appeared in an online magazine called Z Magazine in 2006. The story discusses how rappers feel that they have a privilege over women and they rap about it in their music.…