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article: misogyny in rap music

Channeling of wider cultural misogyny
 * Content analyses have found that approximately 22% to 37% of rap lyrics contain some misogyny, depending on subgenre.[8][9][10] Adams and Fuller state that there are six themes that are considered to be misogynistic rap: derogatory statements about women relative to sex; comments linking malicious actions against women, also in relation to sex; referencing women causing problems for men; the characterization of women as “users” of men; references to women being less than men and finally lyrics referencing ideas that women are usable and discard-able beings.[2] Individual artists have been shown to use such lyrics more or less frequently. Detroit-based rapper Eminem, for example, used misogyny in eleven of the 14 songs on his third studio album The Marshall Mathers LP (2000).[8] Common misogynistic themes include the use of derogatory names such as "bitch" and "ho(e)" (derived from whore), sexual objectification of women, legitimization of violence against women, distrust of women, the belittling of sex workers and glorification of pimping.  “These are groups that have been defined largely through their embrace of a masculinist politics which posits that men are inherently biologically different and superior to women, as well as expressing explicitly misogynistic and antifeminist views”. Rap's conceptualized issues are not due to black men wanting to degrade people as a whole but how the genre as a whole and how it relates to black culture has turned into a issue. Anti-feminist and gays are objectified in song lyrics making it a “normalized” statement in the growing generations. This bewilderment has turned this music against our people and normalized inappropriate behavior relating to sexual and racial differences.

Many scholars have argued that misogyny in hip-hop culture is a product of misogyny within American culture at large.[5] “Misogynous music may be one such information source that plays an important role in the development of men’s cognitive associations regarding women. Given that music is omnipresent in our daily private and public life, the role played by music deserves more attention than it has received to date.” (Peter Fischer). Adams and Fuller (2006) suggest that hip hop artists have internalized negative stereotypes about women that are prevalent in American society, after witnessing women being treated poorly growing up.[2] Michael Eric Dyson states that misogyny is a tried-and-true American tradition from which hip hop derives its understanding of how men and women should behave.

-How does this affect behavior, contagious?

-Why are black men seen as the reason rap was contextualized as ghetto?

- oppression towards POC made rap music, "loud, over the top", etc.

-normalizing the sexuality of woman and men is leading to normalized hatred

hurts the way we see and respect one another