Rap Culture - Women as objects


  • "Bitch, best not jump in here
Bitch, best not run in here talkin' crazy
Get her walkin' papers
See these married niggas makin' it hard for players
But, see, the hardest players is too hard to play "

 "I tell you I love you (I tell you I love you)
I tell you I need you (I tell you I need you)
I say I won't leave you (I say I won't leave you)
Then I get amnesia (Then I get amnesia)"


These lyrics epitomize and define rap lyrics overall style. Over the past decade there has been a rise with this type of lyrics in viewing women as objects. Rappers are glorified for the amount of women they "get" or how many women they "have" as if women are merely an object for gain for men. This is very problematic for a society that is heavily influenced by hollywood, especially the music industry side of hollywood.
Since I have begun to listen to this genre, I have personally experiemnced and witnessed the growth and rise of this objectification of women by the overall genre or rap. I don't like to over generalize the entire genre and all of the artists that fall under rappers, however being a fan of many of these rappers I can testify and confirm that this theme is very prevalnet in a majority of rappers. This creates a problem where women already are opressed in a patriarachal dominate society in the work force, educationally, and politically to name a view areas. Music has an everyday influence on a majority of society and how prevalent musis has become in this society of individual lifes. This way of ancient thinking that is extremely rooted in the systematic opression of women that was extremely relative in the creation of this country and throughout the early life of the United States. Fortunatley, I beleive that our generation is chnaging this narrative that has plagued society for so long. 



Lil Wayne – Hasta La Vista. (2018, November 10). Retrieved from  

        https://genius.com/Lil-wayne-hasta-la-vista-lyrics
Rothenberg, P. S. (1998). Race, class, and gender in the United States: An integrated study. New
York: St. Martin's Press. Part 1, Ch 1, 2, 5, 6. Part 2, Ch 2, 4. Part 4, Ch 2.









Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Intersectionality

Image
I am biracial, my father is white and my mother is Hispanic, however, I am only a quarter Hispanic so I have been identified by others as white. Therefore, I am categorized as having white privilege, which is hard for me to accept and identify with for multiple reasons those of which I will explain later on. My biological sex at birth was male and since then I have identified as male. This gives me another privilege due to the unfair expectations and treatment towards the female gender. On top of being classified as a white, cisgender male, I am also straight which gives me even more privilege in our society compared to others of different sexualities. Since adolescence, religion has been a huge part of my life, but over the years I have developed a personal view on my interpretation of religion which I will further explain. For the sake of common understanding, I identify myself as a Christian. This from my experience caused me a lot more oppression then privilege throughout my perso...
Read more

Social construction of Masculinity for Male Bodies

Image
This picture is from an add that was sponsored on my Instagram feed. It was an advertisement for an app that allows you to edit your body. It's called the "manlyapp". It then played a video of a guy at the beach who didn't have a beach body. It went on to edit his picture giving him rock hard six pack abs, broad shoulders, and a bigger chest. This add is playing on the gender norms  of men's potential insecurities in what is to be considered the "perfect male body". This stereotypical form of the male body is very hypermasculine , big muscles, perfect abs, no fat. This is the body that has been socially constructed in our society as what should be the goal of man to look like. This is so much ingrained in our society that there are now apps that exploit this expectation of men to the point where companies are making profits off of individuals who feel this societal pressure to fit the norm of what the "perfect male body" should look like. Thi...
Read more

Summary of Terms / Artifacts

For two of my artifacts, I chose to use my personal intersectionality as one of my artifacts as well as my personal experience with race and culture that I uniquely grew up with in my life. In it, I explain my unique intersectionality by describing my "race" / ethnicities, my gender, my gender preference, as well as my privilege in relation to these.  I also explain my unique childhood in regards to race, ethnicity, and culture. My next artifact I look at the heteronormative narrative and oppression that goes along with not fitting into this narrative in our society. For this I used two of my friends Instagram posts about each other and one of my friends was taking a poll, asking if my other friend was "gay" for watching a tv show. Another artifact has to do with the social construction of masculinity, specifically tied to male bodies. In this artifact, I look at an Instagram add that is advertising and app that allows males to edit their pi...
Read more