My daughter listens to hip-hop, so perforce I listen to hip-hop (I'm driving, she controls the radio) What are the issues? The hateful approach to women, for one. And how that image is taken in by the listener, and also affects the academic ambitions young women have, and therefore our educational systems. And finally, the way that male hip-hop artists
I started at Negro, Please (Jason is very funny, but most of what he cares about--like reality TV--is meaningless to me, so I only stop by every few weeks). But this stopped me in my tracks:
Bitches Ain't Shit but Hoes and Tricks: Sexism, Feminism and Denial in hip hop. Jason's thesis is, yes, hip-hop is fiercely misogynist, but women in the audience deny that the artists' statements are about them, and keep buying and supporting the vilest of the anti-woman artists. The women artists aren't any different. Jason nominates a few artists who counter the trend, but asks for others.
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