Week Eleven Post Reading

I think that the most interesting that I learned in the video was the response that when asked if they felt offended to the way some hip-hop artists referred to as woman. Some of the women that Hurt asked that question to had stated that they weren’t offended or didn't mind the language choice because it wasn't directed to them personally. It felt a little weird to sound indifferent to someone referring to women in general like that. I don't think it made me change how I thought of hip-hop because I always thought like that about it.

I think that hyper masculinity and violence is a part of larger American culture because we see those two concepts in a lot of other places other than hip-hop. We see it in movies when people fight and the guy seems to be at the top of things and doing most of the stuff. We see it in sports like hockey and football where the harder you hit, the better.

I think that hip-hop is both homophobic and homoerotic at the same time because we don't see any artists that are openly homosexual and are successful. In songs the artists seem to bash other guys if they are supposedly not masculine by describing them with feminine qualities. It is also homoerotic because they have scenes in music videos or on magazines covers where the artists is shirtless or it seems really sexed up as if females are the only watching at the videos or looking at the magazines.

I think that hip-hop is denigrating to women because when you see women in hip-hop videos, they seem to wear less clothes and only seem to be there as eye candy. They seem to act like sex objects for the men's pleasure. Artists also seem to use bad words when describing women as if that is the only thing they are.

I think that hip-hop changed from political and social issues to 'gangsta rap' because the people who produced the music (which most cases is white males) didn't want to produce something that went against the social norms. They wanted something that they assumed to be associated with that race and nothing else. Hip-hop changed because the artists changed the style of their music to fit the new style that the producers were producing.

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