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Username: Redeat A

Response: Male hip hop artists

Some artists continue the trend of being misogynistic within their music. A lyrical example by Too $hort from his album “Coming Up Short” is "I’m only out to f**k a b*tch, f**k tryin’ to charm her. I treat a fine ass b*tch like dirt..." which is a description about his process with women. He describes his motive when he is out with women by only wanting them for his own pleasure. Since wanting them for sex is his only motive, he does not care whether or not the woman likes him because that is not his initial goal. This is a problem because based on the given information he does not actually care about her feeling since he treats her like an object. This is the type of portrayal that many rappers give off because they are seen as tough and do not care about others, especially not women. A different approach by the same artist is “...Rappers like me always disrespectin’ ladies, Wonder why it’s like that, well so do I. But I just turn my back and then I go get high, ‘Cause I get paid real good to talk bad about a b*tch.” Based off of these lyrics, the artist knows that disrespecting women is a problem, but he disregards this problem since many people within the music industry are already contributing to the problem. Disregarding this problem then creates worse problems because men feel like it is okay to treat women in such a matter that have no respect for women.

Response: Female hip hop artists

In addition, the well known female rapper, Nicki Minaj, has allowed misogyny to continue within the music industry. She has songs titled “Stupid Hoe” and lyrics like “B*tches better get on they knees,” and “If I had a d*ck, I would pull it out and piss on 'em [bitches].” Lyrics like this create a negative atmosphere around women by allowing people to say such words towards them. In addition, allowing women to say derogatory words about other women makes the problem worse. Although she is not the only female artist contributing to this problem, she does have a big influence on many other artists. Also, men become more conscious about speaking to women in this way which, in a way, gives them permission to do talk to women in this way as well. With this continuing problem women put other women down which does not help with the way women are treated in society today. Impact:

Along with the major studies conducted, misogyny in rap music creates a different mindset among people. For example, children who grow up listening to misogynistic music may grow into feeling comfortable with talking to women in a manner that affects the way they might treat women in the future. Although this may not always be the case, listening to this type of music regularly gives people a mindset that gives them “permission” to speak to women this way.

Username: Tialemma

Response: Street Authenticity

Hypermasculinity is one of the main deriving sources of hip-hop male artists using misogyny in their songs. For example, in Tyler The Creator's song "She (feat. Frank Ocean)", he sings in the perspective of a man (himself) watching a woman as she sleeps and stays in her room, and continues to stalk and lust over her. His lyrics state "Now she tryna patch me up but, girl I was just tryna get a nut bust" This describes how even though the woman is attempting to discuss their problems or conflict with each other he is only interested in having sex with her, objectifying her in the process. Throughout the song he also sings the lyrics "Blinds wide open so he can see you in the dark when you sleepin". This is a direct example of hypermasculinity as he exaggerates his sexual desire for this woman. Further towards the song, the lyric that stands out the most is "One, two; you're the girl that I want, three, four, five, six, seven; shit eight is the bullets if you say no after all this...I just wanna drag your lifeless body to the forest, and fornicate with it but that's because I'm in love with you, c*nt". Tyler is quite literally stating he would continue to advance onto the woman even after she says no and does not consent. Lyrics like these spread the wrong message about sexual assault and add to the "perpetuation of rape culture and rape myth acceptance" Because of the song's catchy melody people tend to realize just how odd and unusual this sort of aggressiveness really is. But at the same time, due to modern pop culture this kind of "aggressive attitude towards American society has been codified as being a ‘natural’ attitude of all black males in society".