Cultural Critism (Rap Music)

Bell Hooks speaks about rap music and how much it perpetuates misogyny, obsenity, and pornographic images of women. Because rap is so diverse it reaches more than just the Black community. Bell describes rap as a little third world country, that young White consumers listen to and take out of it, all the obsenity, and misogyny. I agree with Bell, however I do not fault the artists for rapping about these things. Its what sells. Just like all of the sexist advertisements rap exploits the female race, and I am not saying that it is justified, but it is all about money. In order to make money, you have to make sales, and in order to make sales you must give the people what they like. For the most part the rappers do not even do the things they rap about. Tupac for instance, was very respectful to women, soley because he knows how women feel, because his mother was a single mother, and he saw the struggles that she went through in raising him. Many parents complain about rap music and what it is doing to their children, but I feel as though it is the parents job to censor what their child hears, if they do not want them listening to that kind of music.