An examination of rap music and its misrepresentation

The Hip-Hop Studies and Visual Culture minor is open to all students and encourages innovative scholarship, creative projects and collaborative research across the disciplines of the arts and humanities, media, history, language and more. The minor focuses on research, critical discourse and creative projects on hip-hop and its elements as expressed through, but not limited to:

Post 2 The topic of women being negatively portrayed in rap music is a topic that has been researched and examined in several effects research studies. Does Exposure to Eminem increase Sexism? The researchers used undergraduate students from the same school who all were put in identical experimental conditions.

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Participants of the study were asked to listen to a rap song by Eminem, which clearly endorsed violence towards women and a Beastie Boys song, which does not include sexist lyrics.

Then, they had to answer questions, which measured ambivalent sexism. They used 44 U. Then, the participants were asked to fill out a questionnaire, which tested their sexual attitudes and beliefs.

The biggest effect that the exposure to the videos had on the participants was on their beliefs about adversarial sexual relationships.

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However, there was not a major effect on their gender role stereotyping, their acceptance of rape myths, or the acceptance of interpersonal violence. Chung, the author of this article, gives several emphasizes the point that the negative portrayal of women in popular rap music can have very harmful effects on young girls such as affecting their identity formation.

Also, these videos show girls what attributes of their bodies are most desirable, such as lighter skin or long hair, which can cause young girls to judge or to try to change themselves to gain that same level of desirability. These are just a few of the serious negative effects that the sexist lyrics and music videos or rap music can have on young girls today.

This study was a cross-sectional design, which used a survey that asked questions about their amount music video viewing by genre, exposure to negative portrayals of women in music videos, personal influence of music videos, sex-role stereotyping, self-efficacy for condom use, rate of condom use in past 6 months, and reality of women in music videos Robillard This helps show young girls are being influenced by the negative portrayal of women in rap music videos.

The overall findings of these studies did not surprise me because I predicted that there would be apparent effects on viewers or listeners of rap music lyrics and videos that included negative portrayals of women.

I think that these results show how important this issue really is because these songs are not fairly portraying women and because this genre of music is so popular, the effects can be very large scale. The most important finding of these studies was the fact that these songs are influencing young girls and causing them to judge themselves or even try to change themselves to be more appealing or desirable, like the women in these rap music lyrics and videos.

This is a huge problem because the women portrayed in these types of videos are not good role models for these young girls.

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This video shows a few clear examples of women in rap music being portrayed in a negative light. For example, the women in these clips are portrayed as highly sexualized female objects and strippers who are expected to partake in sexual innuendoes.As a current student on this bumpy collegiate pathway, I stumbled upon Course Hero, where I can find study resources for nearly all my courses, get online help from tutors 24/7, and even share my old projects, papers, and lecture notes with other students.

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and the methodologies of its examination are rightfully all over the map. They are multidisciplinary in edifying, exemplary fashion, borrowing from sociology, politics, religion, became available to other people who listened to the music.

The hip-hop attitude and culture grew up with the music wherever rap was performed or played.