Summary Of Is Black Music Really Dead

As I strolled down Poinciana Drive on a Tuesday morning, I was suddenly bombarded by the loud speaker knocking music coming out of the back of a dark blue Nissan Maxima. The elderly lady walking ahead of me immediately spun around stunned by the profanity filled lyrics now floating through the air by the rap artist Lil’ Wayne in his hit single “Alphabet Bitches” , “These are my bitches, my alpha bitches, these are my bitches my alphabet bitches, say what, I get bitches, say who, I get bitches”. It was not until then that I realized that this is the type of music that my generation is so accustomed to listening to. In The College of The Bahamas professor Ian Strachan’s article “Is Black Music Really Dead?” he attempts to understand the transition …show more content…
However, out of all it has tremendously change the male’s point of view towards females. Therefore, influential rap music of today’s society paints the picture that women are to be treated like mere items. They have positioned females to be on the same level as their money, cars, and clothes in their fantasy music videos. So what do you think will happen when the young adolescents view this corrupt fantasy? In Ian Strachan’s article he quoted a well-known rapper and actor by the name of Ludacris, well known song “area code” in which he states that “I gat hoes… in diff’rent area codes.” His outlook in the video is portraying that it’s stylish to have numerous women in different countries, thus inciting to the young male audience to do the same thing as well. The offensive lyrics used in rap lyrics thereby help to degrade women’s worthiness and self-character. As a result, men view women as inferior beings, thus leading to women being portrayed in a detrimental …show more content…
It has contaminated the sole essence of what we really perceive a woman as. We no longer appreciate, respect and understand that feminine holds the mystery of creation, failing to connect with the power and wisdom that a woman carries within her nature, through her body’s ability to carry the greatest mystery, which is the potential to give birth, thereby brining light into this world. In Strachan’s article he states “How did we get here? How did we go from Stevie Wonder’s 1969 masterpiece, “My Cherie, Amour” to phrases like “bitch, hoe, trick, freak, skeezer and chickenhead”. When did our views of God’s gift to mankind fall ashore? Women were once considered, to be precious gifts upholding high morals, values and standard. Her principals were ones of nurture, love, understanding, compassion, insight, intuition, creativity, forgiveness, healing and wisdom. However, in today’s society women are no longer being portrayed as these precious gems, instead they are being compared and viewed as replaceable objects and things that lack value. Without femininity nothing new can come into existence, thus we will remain caught in the materialistic image of life that is constantly polluting the minds of our