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inequality if the genders. Robin Thicke’s hit 2013 song “Blurred Lines” is an example of why feminism is still needed today because aside from the degrading and offensive lyrics, “The video is four minutes and thirty-three seconds of Robin Thicke, T.I., and Pharell being felt up and grinded on by stereotypically attractive women wearing nothing but nude thongs, while the men remain fully dressed” (Seaton, 2013). A Parody of the music video called “Defined Lines” portrayed the male the same way…

James Emmanuel Petty, better known by his stage name Propaganda, performed “Boys!!! (A Word from Propaganda)” as a spoken word poem on Sho Baraka’s album “Lions and Liars.” Propaganda focuses on male maturity and the examples adults present for youths from a Christian perspective. Male celebrities have a tremendous influence on young male fans. This poems states, “when the options or aspirations are some combination/of criminal or athlete, actor, or rapper,” (line 26-28) are the mainstream…

Overall, the male songs sent vulgar messages about women. In the song "Bandz a Make Her Dance" by Juicy J, the artist professes that prostitution, drugs and money define his daily life. As the name suggests, "The Thong Song" by Sisqo is about a man wanting a woman to show him her thong and gyrate her behind. "Mercy" by Kanye West" talks about adultery, drug use, and prostitution. The song that had the most exaggerated sexual theme was "Magic Stick" by 50 Cent and Lil' Kim. I can remember being…

James dresses in a ridiculous outfit that gets unwanted attention. Darnell's cousin Russell (Tip "T.I." Harris), who runs the gang, isn't convinced that James can pay him and knows that Darnell is lying about prison. James does help the gang gain interest in finance and stocks. Darnell drives James to a bar where the Alliance of Whites gang is based…

style of rap. There are three main categories I will be focusing on are the artist, quality of lyrics, and the message in the song. Those are going to be the four criteria I use in my decision. The artist now that are most popular are little Wayne, T.I., Eminem, Kanye west, and more. The artist are more about their appearance and how people think of them and make money than anything else. Nowadays people…

Rape Culture in Media; A Thicke problem Blurred Lines, written and performed by Robin Thicke, T.I, and Pharrell Williams, was one of the most popular songs of 2013, becoming the longest running number one single on the Billboard Top 100 that year. In spite of its catchy, popular tune, the song received a substantial amount of criticism and accusations of lyrical promotion and reinforcement of social attitudes about rape culture. Tricia Romano, a journalist for the Daily Beast points out that,…

fine. In conclusion, Roots is a great book to read if you are interested in how life was back then. The book did so well that they made a movie out of the book, That movie did so good that they recently remade it and aired it on the TV featuring T.I. Roots is similar to today's life in many ways good and bad. One way would be when blacks support the phrase "Black lives matter" other races tend to promote the phrase "All lives matter." In my opinion all lives matter but in this time of age…

The Success of Justin Timberlake Born on January 31, 1981 in Memphis, Tennessee, Justin Timberlake is a natural born entertainer. He has two half-brothers named Jonathan and Steven. He grew up singing and acting. His whole family knew, he was a very talented child. He mentioned that he was inspired by Janet Jackson because she “didn’t just stand there and sing her song.” Jackson would always be dancing and singing her heart out when performing. When he was only 11 years old, Timberlake went on…

Introduction: We’ll begin with the meaning of the phrase "it is far more likely that violent and non-violent antisocial behavior develops as a result of a series of complicated interactions with significant others in the social environment." According to the textbook, researchers concluded that “genes influence approximately 50 percent of the population variation in antisocial behavior, suggesting that genetics play a significant role in its development.” (Bartols, 2011) Genes are not set and…

YE Versus The People Are we “the people” able to think freely without the backlash of societal views, values, and attitudes? A great example is the recent twitter scandal of music producer and rapper Kanye West, where he is scrutinize for his “400 years of slavery sounds like a choice” comment during a TMZ interview, his support for Trump, amongst other questionable statements he’s made in the past week. Kanye West is known for his outspoken and racy commentary that it should…