hip-hop clothing fashion. The rap and hip-hop culture is superficially categorized by performers with droopy pants, hats to the back, lacesless sneakers, hoods, and loud radios (Krohn and Suazo 139) This is how teens and children are exposing themselves in society today to express their own individual culture. Misogyny. A strong and negative word meaning hatred toward women, especially by a man. Misogyny is a serious problem in today’s society because of all the negative influence it has generated among our youth. Misogyny is another form of violence. It is the most common and very well known and included in almost every rap and hip-hop artist’s lyrics.Rap and hip-hop artists often create lyrics that degrade women by using sexual remarks such as offending name-calling and derogatory sexual innuendoes, which promote women as sex objects. By using misogynistic lyrics, rappers convey women as their “bitch or whore” meaning that the women is their toy and that the artist has power over his possessions. According to Ronin Ro. “Often these artists refer their partners as ‘bitches’ and ‘whores’ and they appear to take pride in describing their abuse of power in sexual situations” (142-3). By this example, it is clearly shown that rappers extremely desire the need for power. And the only way they can get that power is by the way they choose to express their sexual desires through their lyrics. Rappers basically use women for sex. Through the rapper’s eye, women are nothing but helpless human beings with no brains and just a body.Gang violence is a most common problem in urban city streets across the nation. It is a known fact that a large portion of gang violence is rape among women. “These lyrics are derogatory sexual innuendoes viewed by many as promoting gang rape.” (Ro 143) Gang rape is a serious problem today and is vastly growing. The reason why gangs are motiv...
