Constant attacks on homosexuals and women show the battle between cultural differences in many of gangsta rappers. Gangsta rap is often known for its sexist lewd imagery. Weather its foul language or showing of guns in videos gangsta rap reflects a vicious lifestyle. It also portrays black relationships as nothing more than mere pleasure. Gangsta rappers refer to women as ho's and bitches often belittling black women to show how much they aren't needed in society.
However, many rap songs today in one way or another are degrading and offensive towards women or in other words, misogyny. Society is affected negatively because the later generations are growing up thinking that misogyny is acceptable. Although many people believe rap is a harmless genre of music, most rap music consists of lyrics that portray women in a derogatory fashion. Many of rap songs involve name calling and violent attitude directed more likely at women in general than a particular person. Women in those songs are mostly placed in a sexual context and called offensive words such as bitch, whore, and slut.
So do I. Except mine impregnates the page giving birth to thoughts that unify You fuck little girls. I make love to women My words uplift, yours are poisonous like venom Im an M.C. Youre a rapper Im as real as they come, while half the guys you idolize are just actors You run from commitment I remain loyal You call women bitches. I call them queens because they're royal You make rap songs I make soul music!
The term Jezebel has biblical significance. Jezebel was an evil queen who used her powers to convince her husband to assist her in leading the Hebrews into sexual immortality. In modern usage the term Jezebel has been used to signify a sexually lewd and promiscuous woman, a hussy of sorts. She has made her way through history from black female slaves forced to be mistress to her master to hip-hop music video vixens using their powers of sexuality to control and seduce men for their own personal gains. The hyper-sexuality of Black women in slavery comes as no surprise.
Majority of the lyricism depicted in Hip Hop is about emphasizing the “thug life”. In particular, misogynistic lyrics are prevalent in the Hip Hop community. It has become a norm within the community to demean and objectify women as this glorifies the ability of a male to control and exploit them. This phenomenon will be analysed with the Discourse Theory and the Cognitive Dissonance Theory. The Discourse Theory is the study of language, and the meaning assigned to language.
The negative impact rap and hip hop music have on our youth is detrimental effects to those that listen to such violent and sexually graphic lyrics. One negative impact that rap and hip hop have on our youth is violence. It is not hard to find, or hear examples of violence in either rap or hip hop today. One example of such unmistakable violence can be heard in such lyrics, as “Marilyn Manson,” whose less vulgar lyrics include: “who says date rape is not kind?” Let’s just kill everyone and let your god sort them out.” And “The housewife I will beat, the prolife I will kill.” In addition, “Eminem,’ the hip-hop artist most popular with teens today recently wrote “Bonnie and Clyde,” a song in which he described killing his child’s mother and dumping her body in the ocean. Eminem was at the time married to his child’s mother, who tried committing suicide after the release of this cd and after failing filed for divorce.
He is almost completely shunned from the town because he is trying to help a black man accused of rape. Mayella had told Tom, “I said come here, nigger, and bust up this chiffarobe for me, I gotta nickel for you.” (p.241) She had tricked him to coming over to her. Then that’s about the time when she accuses him of rape. He had felt sorry for her, which is why he was falsely accused in the first place. Courthouse segregation was one of the biggest bits of racism I found in this book.
Her use of pathos in the beginning of the article creates a sarcastic tone for the rest of the article. “In recent pictures it's clear Angelina Jolie hasn't taken the time to learn or understand the long and painful history of African-American women and hair.” Right off the back Samuels directly insults Jolie. To go with the insult she discusses the history that African American women have with their hair. The author wants to make sure if the audience is ignorant about the subject as she believes Jolie is, then she is going to explain it to them. Her harsh diction is grabbing the audience’s attention and is also trying to get the audience to feel a particular way.
The song opens with the line “I am the voice inside your head / And I control you” (“Mr. Self-Destruct”) and continues to describe the antagonist as the dark force that causes the character to use drugs and sex as a means of escape; establishing the character as severely mentally unstable. The second song “Piggy” the person in a relationship with the protagonist leaves him for someone else, at a point when he needed them most. He lashes out at the person calling them a “pig”. The break up callouses the character as he says “Nothing can stop me now / Because I don’t care anymore” (“Piggy”); this is the first sign of apathy in the character.
For over a century, women have been speaking about the double enslavement of black women and how not only are they handicapped on account of their sex, but they are mocked almost everywhere because of their race as well. In “Multiple Jeopardy, Multiple Consciousness: The Context of a Black Feminist Ideology,” Deborah King illustrates how the dual discriminations of racism and sexism remain pervasive, and how class inequality compounds those oppressions. In the case of Pecola Breedlove, the protagonist of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, this triple jeopardy of race, gender, and class ultimately leave her feeling socially powerless in society. Pecola must suffer all the burdens of prejudice of having dark skin, as well as bear the additional burden of having to cope with white and black men because of her sex. The beauty standards of white Western culture, the sexual abuse of Pecola by her father, and Pecola’s low economic status have multiplicative effects on Pecola and all aid in her progressive alienation from society as well as her fall towards insanity.