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Gender Representation in Hip Hop Videos

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The legendary genre of Hip-hop was born in the late 60th of the 20th century and continued to evolve to the present day. That what began more than 30 years ago, boiled over into a particular movement and culture (onlinethics, (2012). Hip-Hop has spread around different parts of the world, even in those countries in which English is not their first language the hip hop genre has been recognized. While this genre continued to evolve, it has become a peculiarly vulgar for our current audience. Women are seen as sexual objects in hip hop music videos, while men are seen with a masculine force and power, forced to wear a tough guise which represents what our society considers to be a man (Strong, Aggressive, thug, etc.) That being said, further discussion will contain the interpretation of the opposite sex in hip hop music videos. Mostly focusing on females doing such behaviors males are expected to perform, showing the audience the outcome of this re-enactment. The Representation of women in hip hop music videos has been taking to a whole new level. Women are seen as sexual objects in these music videos, showing more skin than Pamela Anderson on a vogue magazine, the hip hop industry is introducing a new era. The term misogyny is used to signify woman who experience sexism in their personal life, at work and in explicit hip hop music videos, this term is mostly known as hatred from woman (onlinethics, (2012). The song “Versace- Migos” includes disturbing lyrics towards a celebrity female individual (Halle Berry), while singing “I'm tryna give Halle Berry a baby and no one can stop me," Migos is basically talking about using force sexually on this female without consent. Behaviours such as the one previously discussed is used more and more often now days by young males due to how frequent these lyrics tend to appear in songs. Treating females like sexual objects is becoming more and more normal to our society, resulting in females being brain washed into thinking that behaving with such vulgar manners is appropriate. Women are now often found wearing provocative clothing and performing exotic dancing not only in music videos but in real life, they now volunteer and aim to be in a hip hop music video for the pure satisfact

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