Pre-Reading Week Eleven

I think that when people think of hip-hop, they seem to mainly associate it with one race, African Americans. I have heard people say that hip-hop music is black music and that is what they listen to as if no one else listens to that type of music. Hip-hop also seems to be related be associated with more with people who are of lower classes, with males, people who are straight, and with people who are criminals or have bad reputations.

I think that the purpose of hip-hop is just to entertain its listeners as well as the people who make the music. I don’t think it has an agenda. It is just a type of music that people listen to like country or rock or any other type of music.

I think that hip-hop is for anyone who chooses to listen to it or create it, but we see that a lot of hip-hop artists are African Americans and that the people who listen to it are mainly African American as well. I think that hip-hop music is not racially diverse but at the same time it is not completely racially homogenous. They main listeners to hip-hop music may be of one certain race, but that does not mean that other people of different races do not listen to it as well.

I think that hip-hop music is so popular because you have some people that could probably relate to the lyrics in the songs. People might also just like the rhythms or the beats or any other part of the song that has caught their attention.

Rock feels that he has to defend rap music because when people think about rap music they associate it with people who are no good. People believe that people who listen to rap music are bad as well as the people who create it the music in the first place.

In hip-hop, women seem to be just things to talk about explicitly. They seem to be talked about as if they were sex objects and nothing more. I don’t think that hip-hop music is misogynistic because it doesn't seem to show that they hate woman. In hip-hop music, woman seemed to be talked about explicitly, but it has not hit the point where they show that they hate women.

In hip-hop, men seem to be the top guns, the ones who are the best and the ones on top while woman seem to be the submissive ones, as if they were nothing but things to be used.

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