"Three 6 Mafia’s controversial ‘‘It’s Hard Out Here For a Pimp’’ from the film
Flow
criticism for glorifying the exploitation of women.""A body of research documents depictions of men and women in different genres. A
content analysis of rock music videos found that a majority (57%) presented women
in a ‘‘condescending’’ manner (e.g., unintelligent, sex object, victim) and a fifth
placed them in a traditional sex role (e.g., subservient, nurturing, domestic roles)"http://www.albany.edu/scj/jcjpc/vol8is2/armstrong.html
"Pimp-prostitute associations are the locales of violent and misogynist lyrics"
"Gangsta rap music continues to teach, promote, and glamorize violence and misogyny"
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0112/p11s01-almp.html
"It's common, for instance, to see videos in which hip-hop artists lounge poolside as a harem of women gyrate around them in bikinis. The video for Nelly's "Tip-Drill" goes so far as to portray scantily clad women as sexual appliances"
"Last year marked three decades since hip-hop emerged on the streets of New York. Since then, it's established itself at the vanguard of pop culture. As an influence on fashion and other genres of music, hip-hop has had a colossal impact. But hip-hop culture hasn't always been as sexist as it is now"
"But as "gangsta rap" has come to the fore, so have lyrics that glorify violence and misogyny"
https://umdrive.memphis.edu/ajohnsn6/rhetoric%20of%20hip%20hop/where%20my%20girls%20at.pdf
"Todays American youths of all racial and ethnic heritages are living in a cultural
environment dominated by the idioms of Black youth and working-class culture
that have been articulated since the late 1970s and early 1980s by hip-hop culture""Yet, African American women have a significant presence in hip-hop and Black
popular culture, and in music videos, where they appear as dancers; models; and,
most significantly, as performers. At the same time, the hip-hop genre and the
music videos that are used to promote records and performers have been harshly
critiqued for the antiwoman (specifically anti-Blackwoman) messages and images
contained within them"http://articles.cnn.com/2005-03-03/entertainment/hip.hop_1_hip-hop-black-women-spelman-college/2?_s=PM:SHOWBIZ
"The problem, said Davis, is that the image of the black woman portrayed in many hip-hop videos has become the pervasive image of black women. And, according to Essence research, the main consumers of hip-hop are young, affluent, white men. She fears that society as a whole is getting a "sick" image of what black women are all about"Hustle and. The song was performed at the Oscars and immediately provoked a storm of
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