User:Jcrg34/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
African-American LGBT community Specifically the part about Persecution within Hip-hop and LGBT representations in hip hop music

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
It was a c class article that needs more information to flesh it out.

Evaluate the article
In the orginal African-American LGBT article the citation link (64) goes on the make a broad assumption that "one would be hard pressed to not find a gay slur embedded in the lyrics of any of the genre's most famous architects." This citation opens many questions about what it means. Who are the most famous architects of hip hop? This was a bit of opinon in that article that is then seeping into wikipedia with a very broad brush. At this point there is no settled "Architects of Hip Hop" so such a generalization is unacademic. Hip Hop as a genre is filled with sub genres and with many different pioneers throughout the last 50 years, so to say every hip hop artist who has been famous has said a gay slur seems wrong. When you click on the next link to the LGBT representations in hip hop music the intro paragraph says "h mainstream artists such as Eminem and Tyler, the Creator having used homophobia in their lyrics" and while in a sense that is true, to link the two is odd. Tyler the Creator is a Queer man who part of the gay community so to say his music uses homophobia gives a misguided impression. DMX or any other straight rapper with homophobia in their lyrics would make a lot more sense as an example.