sexism and misogyny in hip-hop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2q5zlgkKas&feature=related

In this video women in hip-hop music are objectified. In most of the videos they used just as eye candy, objects of the mans desires. When the model is asked about her experience with videos she says she treated it as a job, and because there is so much competition on the set women are willing to do anything to get the camera attention. The videos shows young women that the images that are seen are all that women can be. The women are beautiful, but that is all they are portrayed as. Some women want that attention from the rappers. They want the to get with rappers, and they want them to do the things they do. Those women don't seem to much have respect for themselves, and it could be because they have grown up in a culture that doesn't depict them as respectable, but instead as an object of men's sexual deviance. There is heavy structural and symbolic violence that has negative effects on the youth that sees these videos, and this miss treatment of women in the hip-hop community. Women's role in hip-hop has artists are few and far between and female records are becoming less common. If they are an artist they usually rap with a male counterpart, and that seems like the only way for them to be successful. Hip-Hop is dominated by men, and it is almost impossible for women to be successful without them. It is historically a very sexist industry. Women have to look good, sound good, and really try and sell themselves.