Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes

Did you know that majority of the Hip Hop industry music sales come from the White community? Wow! I did not know that! The video we watched in class was really interesting because it talked about music that the class basically listens to everyday. In this music there are lyrics and videos that display masculine identity that men display inside as well as outside the industry. There is a lot of cursing and violence in these industries and personally I think this displays and insecurity of these men. Like where did all of this originate? Why does violence attract so many people? It’s like when rappers rap about violence and talking bad about girls the listeners of this music get so attached to it and try to make their life into this fantasy portrayed. I have to be honest though. I listen to this music a good bit, but I just really enjoy the beats rather than the lyrics. I just think it Is important to not get attached to these lyrics because all of it is FAKE in my eyes.

Some words I learned … Homo irodism- An example of this would be LL Cool J with his shirt off, sagging pants, and tattoos.
Also the phrase Bitch ass niggas feminizes men
I thought this video was really nice to watch and I loved the comments the class shared throughout the video.

-Buttercup/Breanna Cousin

Boys and Sexual Harassment

I know that I am suppose to blog about the other chapters that I have read, but this subject and boys and sexual harassment rose in interest in me. When I looked through my notes this weekend I saw this subject and really wanted to discuus this. In my school as well as the schools where the author interviewed there were this activity of boys touching and talking to girls innapropriately. Most of these incidents occur between the friendships of these boys and girls. Most of these boys just like to play around too much and it gets out of hand at times. I just think the boys need to keep their hands and comments to themselves. This action will reduce a lot of confusion between the girls and boys and the conflict will be settled.

That was just a random blog I felt like talking about !

-Buttercup/Breanna Cousin

Women and Music Videos

As we all know women are hardly NEVER fully dressed when it comes down to making music video for "POPULAR" men. Thinking it's going to get them money & some just because they think it's cute. In most videos womens bodies are used to draw attention to or advertise more. Female bodies are used to simply achieve a goal that men has set for themselves. One thing about men is that they don't want any "Thick" females doing work for them , she must be a certain size in order to fit the job correctly. A question was asked in class: Would you starve yourself or do whatever it takes just to impress a man or whomever? Majority of us answered no! Another thing we talked about in class was: How are kids in the city represented in the nighty news? Most of the time teens are either seen on the news because a shooting happened, kidnapped/missing or something like that. Very seldom when you see anything good like a child won the lottery. I mean c'mon can't they reconize us for doing something good, instead of negative news all the time? The women in the music videos compare to children on the nightly news because with both something negavtive is getting reconized. Women should repect themselves more and maybe men will too & teens with all this killing should also stop. (blossom)Brishawn Perkins