Hip Hop Summary
Christopher Blair
4/25/2013
Question 11
English 12
The authors views of music videos and the hip hop commitment is sexist. She makes points on hose hip-hop in general degrades woman and demoralizes them in a derogatory way. I would like to touch base on the same subject matter but shed light in a different point of view. What the author lacked is a first hand opinion of woman who actually do this for a living, and try to understand where they are coming from?.
From my point of view music motivates people everyday in different ways. When I listen to the different music and watch music video produced by different artists; it gets me excited to see how these videos show a variety of lifestyles. Most of the time these rappers come …show more content…
This environment of drugs and gangs is a vicious cycle that has been implemented in there brains; since as far as they can remember. The music industry is there only way out because some never graduate high school or even go to college. And have no means of one day obtaining fame any other way. The truth is most of rappers & video vixens in this day in age are highly intelligent. Mclune states " But female hip-hop artist remain marginalized within the industry and culture except when they are trotted out to defend hip-hop against feminist criticism. But the truth is, all kinds of patriarchal institutions, organizations, and movements have women in their ranks in search of power and meaning. The token presence of individual women changes nothing if women as a group are still scapegoated and degraded" (215). Because of people like Mclune artist and women aren't respected for there artist views and expressions. And I feel it is sad that the general population put them down and challenges their intellectual capacities. If most rappers are ignorant as they say then why isn't everyone rich or famous?. We can even go into the people producing this hip-hop music its extremely hard to make music that appeals to everyone. All the obstacles that these men and women go through to make it in the industry while getting put down all the time should be respected. I feel that people truly don't understand them and always judge without knowing where they came from and what they been
4/25/2013
Question 11
English 12
The authors views of music videos and the hip hop commitment is sexist. She makes points on hose hip-hop in general degrades woman and demoralizes them in a derogatory way. I would like to touch base on the same subject matter but shed light in a different point of view. What the author lacked is a first hand opinion of woman who actually do this for a living, and try to understand where they are coming from?.
From my point of view music motivates people everyday in different ways. When I listen to the different music and watch music video produced by different artists; it gets me excited to see how these videos show a variety of lifestyles. Most of the time these rappers come …show more content…
This environment of drugs and gangs is a vicious cycle that has been implemented in there brains; since as far as they can remember. The music industry is there only way out because some never graduate high school or even go to college. And have no means of one day obtaining fame any other way. The truth is most of rappers & video vixens in this day in age are highly intelligent. Mclune states " But female hip-hop artist remain marginalized within the industry and culture except when they are trotted out to defend hip-hop against feminist criticism. But the truth is, all kinds of patriarchal institutions, organizations, and movements have women in their ranks in search of power and meaning. The token presence of individual women changes nothing if women as a group are still scapegoated and degraded" (215). Because of people like Mclune artist and women aren't respected for there artist views and expressions. And I feel it is sad that the general population put them down and challenges their intellectual capacities. If most rappers are ignorant as they say then why isn't everyone rich or famous?. We can even go into the people producing this hip-hop music its extremely hard to make music that appeals to everyone. All the obstacles that these men and women go through to make it in the industry while getting put down all the time should be respected. I feel that people truly don't understand them and always judge without knowing where they came from and what they been