Women's Studies 2161A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Gangsta Rap, Product Placement, Espn Bottomline

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2161A/B
• Professor: Nichole Edwards

Document Summary

Hip hop is market driven, obsessed with status, mass materialism. Whatever you like https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=nqjacvmanky: their shared love of consumption represents their romantic/sexual. Love": consumption of women only occurs if/when he provides her with the material possessions, broader links to masculinity. Hip hop today has increasingly less emphasis on origins an artist"s class/racial struggles, shich is the foundation of hip hop in the 1970s. For black artists, the projection of ghetto associations is less difficulty and less contentious, since the dominant social perspective always already" interpolates black youths, especially males, as ghetto citizens, if not thugs. (forman 202) Marky mark, ice cube, the beasty boys, kid rock, eminem. White rappers who cannot claim inherent racial blackness have to borrow from or mimic (or actually hail from black urban spaces) without losing themselves, in order to be accepted within hip hop communities. How should women be represented in rap and how should they represent themselves? .