Woman in Hip-Hop

When Most poeple think about females in hip hop the think about woman being seductive and being objects for males in their videoclip. But actually no, today there as many female hip hop artists that are as successful and powerful as men

Woman in hip hop often have the role of the badman in black folk culture, a role descended from slavery, has been widely embraced in hip hop identity. So, understandably, we find a host of female “badman” in hip hop who use the language of violence, power, and subversive tricksterism to articulate their artistic prowess

The badwomen do not simply occupy male spaces, however. They also use their presence to call into question the masculine designation of those spaces, and to at times even offer a feminist critique by using the power vested in these spaces.

  

Look at missy Elliot She is powerfull, she is A five-time Grammy Award winner, with record sales of over thirty million in the United States. She is the perfect exaple of a female badman in hip hop

Heres the clip of the song “the rain”, you cqn see she is dressed like a gangsta with chains 

and riding in a big car

Some black woman like to dress like gangstas because white female standards of beauty still haunt them, so they have chosen more masculine outfitting as a counter-hegemonic move

Hip hop feminist symbolism (Elaine Richardson)

“Li’l Kim represents a type of power. She is the queen of the streets, the Queen Bitch, the Queen Bee, the Black Madonna of rap music. She is an overcomer. She is a global fashion icon. Li’l Kim violation of sexual mores is threatening to some.”

Color-Blind Ideology

Today in class we talked about race relations and how that comes into play in the realm of hip-hop. We also discussed the implications of stereotyping and what it means to be black and what it means to be white.

Our lesson was based on Jason Rodriquez’s article “ Color-Blind Ideology and the Cultural Appropriation of Hip-Hop”

“This article examines how white youths culturally appropriate hip-hop by adhering to the demands of color-blind ideology. Using ethnographic methods and interviews of members in a local hip-hop scene, I argue that color- blind ideology provides whites with the discursive resources to justify their presence in the scene, and more important, to appropriate hip-hop by removing the racially coded meanings embedded in the music and replacing them with color-blind ones. This research contributes to the existing scholarship on racial ideology by analyzing how it is put into action by individuals in a specific local context in which race is salient. Furthermore, it extends our understanding of how color-blind ideology operates in practice, enabling whites with the discursive resources and racial power to culturally appropriate hip-hop, however unintentionally, for their own purposes.”

For me Eminem is the best White rapper and I think that he changed the whole idea of white rappers. “Eminem is one of the best-selling artists in the world and is the best selling artist of the 2000s. He has been listed and ranked as one of the greatest artists of all time by many magazines, including Rolling Stone magazine, which ranked him 82nd on its list of The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. The same magazine declared him The King of Hip Hop.^”

There are a few other White rappers that impress me for example Asher Roth.

He scored a huge hit with his first single "I Love College," a rather deceiving verse to laid-back life on campus.

There are many other good White rappers that made a big change in the whole stereotype of rapper being “black” but I still think that most of the rappers are black and that unless white people are really good they will look ridiculous if they start rapping and where baggy jeans with a cap.

White niggass

Can a white person be a rapper? can a white person listen to rap?? Can a white person rhyme? or does a white person have swag?? 

This week we talked about the dilemma of white people in rap music. In short, why do white people like rap music or even become rappers?

Everything but the Burden: " what white people are taking fro; black culture" was the base of our lecture this week.

We can already see the main dilemma in the title of the book. White people are co-opting black styles of music, dance, dress, and slang. Though, they can in no way “take the burden” of blackness, of whose roots go back way further in the past.

Well to my opinion white people may love rap as well as create rap. I personally love rap and love song white artists. 

BUT I do think it's an african american thing to rap, when you are white you have to create your own style or be really good. 

this is one of m favourite songs by Mac Miller.

This discussion about white people saying the word n*gga has come up before and is another dilemma about white poeple rapping or liking rap music, now do you think that A white person should use the word nigga ?? or do you thing its insulting?

This is the Answer of an African American : “Now, I'm NOT saying that white people should be able to address their Black friends as n*ggas, or even say n*gga in their daily lives, but what I'm saying is that I KNOW that MOST white people don't edit the word n*gga out of their vocab during a rap sing-a-long.”

The African Americans do merit credit and gratitude for inventing hip-hop and the history of hip-hop cannot be changed. But I do think that white people can be part of it.