Thursday, December 10, 2009
Sexual Tone in Hip-Hop & Its Influence Script
Introduction-
Thanks for viewing this pod cast on the sexual tone in hip-hop and its influence. Sex is throughout hip-hops lyrics, videos, and artist appearances. In this presentation you will get the opinions of Kamilah a 19 year old female, James a 18 year old male, Khadijah a 13 year old female, and Wayne an older male. When people are asked who in hip-hop do you feel demean women the most, the first two names to come to mind are all to often Nelly and Lil Kim and some will say Gucci Mane. Now you will hear the opinions of the two males and two females on different pictures and song clips.
Lil Kim Photo-
This is a photo of Lil Kim at a 2001 MTV Movie Awards Red Carpet wearing nothing but jeans and flowers covering her nipples.
After looking at this photo what influence do you think it has on young women?
(Response from Kamilah)
Lil Kim Song Clip-
The clip you are about to hear is a song by Lil Kim called “The Jumpoff”.
(Clip Played)
Okay Khadijah after hearing this song and being a 13 year old young lady, what is your opinion on this clip and its influence on young people your age?
(Response from Khadijah)
Nelly Photo-
This is a photo from Nelly’s Tip Drill video, showing a women with her butt to the camera and a man with a credit card to her butt.
So, James after looking at this photo, what influence do you think it has on females?
(Response from James)
Nelly Song Clip & Photo-
The clip you are about to hear is a song by Nelly called “Tip Drill” and the background photo is from the Tip Drill video with a female laying on a table with her legs open and guys throwing money at her.
(Clip Played)
So, Wayne after hearing this clip and looking at this photo what influence do you think it has on young women?
(Response from Wayne)
Gucci and Nicki Minaj Song Clip-
The clip you are about to hear is a song by Gucci Mane ft. Nicki Minaj called “Freaky Girl Remix”.
(Clip Played)
People have different opinions on how this degrades women and its influence on sex. So, Kamilah, can you give me your opinion on that clip?
(Response from Kamilah)
Resources
http://egyptsaidso.com/interviews/voletta-snaps-back-at-lil-kim/
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/hiphop/gender.htm
LimeWire
Hip-Hop Survey Result
This is a graph for one of the questions on a survey I conducted over the semester. This question asked people how responsible they believe artist, media, society, and values are for the behavior of women from hip-hop. Most people believed that media was most responsible for their behavior. Very few people believed that artist, media, and society and little responsibility for the actions of women. Overall, the survey revealed that many people think bad about hip-hop and it degrades women. Also, that hip-hop has changed in the past 5 years or more.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Misused Apostrophe In West Detroit
This misused apostrophe was found on Warren and Greenfield in Detroit, MI. This is a misused apostrophe because an apostrophe was supposed to be used after the R and before the S. It should have followed the plural word rule of apostrophes. On the back of the menu it uses the apostrophe correctly, but not on the building or front page. It should have been spelled CAESAR'S.
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This misused apostrophe was found on Warren in Detroit, MI. This is a misused apostrophe because an apostrophe should have been placed after the last S. It should have followed the plural rule of apostrophes. It should have been spelled SISTERS' Cakery.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Profile Photo Blog-Hip-Hop Influence
This is a photo that I used of myself to show how hip-hop uses sex as their foreground for videos. This is one minimal example of how women are portrayed in the industry.
This is a photo of the person I interviewed on hip-hop influence. She was a very sweet and the perfect person to talk to on this topic.
This is a photo of the building that my interview took place in and where her office is located.
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Hip-Hop's Influence on Society-Articles Summary
LaMindyonda Bowen
ENG 106
October 2, 2009
Hip-Hop’s Influence on Society
Hip-Hop has become a huge influence on children, young women, and society over the years of hip-hop’s creation. It has become a positive and negative influence on our society today and it’s not the best thing that could be influencing our children and young women today. Hip-Hop’s lyrics, music, & videos all have some negative aspect to them. I live in a household with three children, ages 9, 11, & 13, and they all have a great influence from the music they listen to and video’s they watch on a daily basis. The three articles all have something in common and connect to each other with their views of hip-hop culture, hip-hops influences on society, and sexism within society.
“Keepin' it real: Black youth, hip-hop culture, and black identity”, is an article that discusses how hip-hop and black youth relate, how youth at a city youth center in Northern California linked to hip-hop, cultural capital, and gender roles. The article states that there is a newly proposed definition of cultural capital as being, “institutionalized, i.e., widely shared high status cultural signals (attitudes, preferences, formal knowledge, behaviors, goods and credentials) used for social and cultural exclusion” (p. 1). This definition is greatly influenced in the article when the author goes into talking about his experience when conducting this study in the city youth center. The author talks about the teens in the center and how they each have different ways of using and performing hip-hop culture and black identity.
Dewayne, a youth member talked about his involvement with the hip-hop culture and his interactions with his peers and the staff at the center. The aspects of hip-hop that he portrayed was his looks, clothing style (baggy pants, polo shirts, & Jordan’s and Nikes), coolness, lovingness, and relationship with everyone; males, females, and staff. He was someone that was liked by all and able to grab attention from everyone. Another youth was Tiffany, the author explains that the first time she appeared at the youth center she wore baggy clothing and a pulled back pony-tail. The second time Tiffany appeared at the center, she was wearing form fitting clothing, her top showed the mid-section of her body, and her hair was down with a cap over it; attributed from the women of hip-hop like Lil Kim and Missy Elliot. By just changing her clothing and being more aggressive Tiffany began to get more attention from the boys and was in the “popular” crowd and wrestling and playing with the boys. She reflected hip-hop in her clothing and attitude, unlike Dewayne, Tiffany was not liked by everyone, but interacted with only boys. The last youth the author mentioned was Darin, he seemed to not have the style, coolness, or relationship with peers that both Dewayne and Tiffany had. Darin fought for attention in the wrong ways, bullied, and talked about by his peers and even his sister.
Cultural capital, black identity, and gender roles all overlap in how these teens reflect hip-hop. Cultural capital and black identity are similar because these teens all reflected attitude, behavior and style in the way they were accepted by peers in which seem to be the black identity within the youth center. Black identity and gender roles are similar because there are roles, (attitude, style-male and female differ, and looks), that each gender must portray to be popular, which seem to be the identity of black youth.
The article, “Media/Visual Literacy Art Education: Sexism in Hip-Hop Music Videos”, focuses a lot on how women are portrayed in hip-hop videos, the sexism issues in hip-hop videos, and ways that high school teachers can help change teens views and cultural capital. Like the previous article it talks about cultural capital. This article defines cultural capital as “language, gestures, fashion, and performance,” which is similar to the definition used in the above article. Throughout the article it describes women as being portrayed as the focus of “male gaze”, attractive/desirable, young girls, sexual, and objects. By these being the views of young women in the videos it gives young girls the need to be sexual in order to be accepted by peers and be popular, also to desire a life of partying, style of hip-hop, and vocabulary to be social within popular groups. Hip-hop videos degrade women within their lyrics, media out-put (MTV & VH1), photos, and scenarios used to get their degrading point across as to what women are worth in music videos.
There are very few female rapper’s in the hip-hop industry; the article calls this “Feminist Rap”. The article explains how some of the women of hip-hop bring women and themselves up, having self worth, and not portrayed the way men do in their music videos. Feminist rap such as Salt-N-Pepa and Queen Latifah are examples of women that use their videos and lyrics as ways to promote women, women’s importance, and self worth. The article gives examples of songs these two feminist rappers use to break sexism and female bodies as the norm to exploit. Songs like “Ladies First” by Queen Latifah “Latifah calls for respect and self-love among African-American women, promotes the importance of womanhood, and demands equal treatment for all.” and “Shake Your Thang” by Salt-N-Pepa “the group reclaims the right of women to take control of their own bodies and sexuality.” This demonstrates that hip-hop music can be expressed without degrading and exposing women.
The last article, “The Exploitation of Women in Hip-hop Culture”, focuses mainly on how men of hip-hop exploit women in and out of their music videos and . The article states that “mainstream American culture is sexism and misogyny”, otherwise saying that the American culture is to have hatred toward women and using them as sex symbols. Exploitation toward women is used and accepted by men, women, children/teens, media, and the artist that promote it in their videos. The lyrics and images in hip-hop videos include a mix of woman of all races, but have a significant amount of blacks that are represented as sex objects/symbols. The article suggest that men (rappers) promote themselves as pimps and the women as their hoes, prostitutes, and someone that obeys what they say. The article also talks about an interview that was done in Vibe Magazine with women of the hip-hop industry. The women explain themselves as being worthless, uneducated women, and had nothing to give, so they feel that why would a man want something like that, so they felt the need to give something and they gave their bodies. It is ridiculous that “Men thought that women were only worth giving them sexual favors, and women thought men are only worth giving them money.”
These articles all have a connection that teens are influenced by hip-hop and its videos, women are seen as sex objects, that cultural capital is a big influence, and that men need little to be seen as “the man” and over women. The male dominated hip-hop industry has a lot of effect on how teens reflect it (dress, act, and view each other), women view their self worth, and how it has become the culture for many. Hip-Hop has a huge impact on social identity and will only continue unless something is changed.
Works Cited
Andreana Clay. (2003). “Keepin' it real: Black youth, hip-hop culture, and black identity.” The American Behavioral Scientist, 46(10), 1346-1358. Retrieved October 4, 2009, from ABI/INFORM Global. (Document ID: 350239881).
Sheng Kuan Chung. (2007). “Media/Visual Literacy Art Education: Sexism in Hip-Hop Music Videos.” Art Education, 60(3), 33-38. Retrieved October 2, 2009, from Research Library. (Document ID: 1275874881).
Ayanna. “The Exploitation of Women in Hip-hop Culture.” My Sistahs A Project from Advocates for Youth. October 2, 2009.
ENG 106
October 2, 2009
Hip-Hop’s Influence on Society
Hip-Hop has become a huge influence on children, young women, and society over the years of hip-hop’s creation. It has become a positive and negative influence on our society today and it’s not the best thing that could be influencing our children and young women today. Hip-Hop’s lyrics, music, & videos all have some negative aspect to them. I live in a household with three children, ages 9, 11, & 13, and they all have a great influence from the music they listen to and video’s they watch on a daily basis. The three articles all have something in common and connect to each other with their views of hip-hop culture, hip-hops influences on society, and sexism within society.
“Keepin' it real: Black youth, hip-hop culture, and black identity”, is an article that discusses how hip-hop and black youth relate, how youth at a city youth center in Northern California linked to hip-hop, cultural capital, and gender roles. The article states that there is a newly proposed definition of cultural capital as being, “institutionalized, i.e., widely shared high status cultural signals (attitudes, preferences, formal knowledge, behaviors, goods and credentials) used for social and cultural exclusion” (p. 1). This definition is greatly influenced in the article when the author goes into talking about his experience when conducting this study in the city youth center. The author talks about the teens in the center and how they each have different ways of using and performing hip-hop culture and black identity.
Dewayne, a youth member talked about his involvement with the hip-hop culture and his interactions with his peers and the staff at the center. The aspects of hip-hop that he portrayed was his looks, clothing style (baggy pants, polo shirts, & Jordan’s and Nikes), coolness, lovingness, and relationship with everyone; males, females, and staff. He was someone that was liked by all and able to grab attention from everyone. Another youth was Tiffany, the author explains that the first time she appeared at the youth center she wore baggy clothing and a pulled back pony-tail. The second time Tiffany appeared at the center, she was wearing form fitting clothing, her top showed the mid-section of her body, and her hair was down with a cap over it; attributed from the women of hip-hop like Lil Kim and Missy Elliot. By just changing her clothing and being more aggressive Tiffany began to get more attention from the boys and was in the “popular” crowd and wrestling and playing with the boys. She reflected hip-hop in her clothing and attitude, unlike Dewayne, Tiffany was not liked by everyone, but interacted with only boys. The last youth the author mentioned was Darin, he seemed to not have the style, coolness, or relationship with peers that both Dewayne and Tiffany had. Darin fought for attention in the wrong ways, bullied, and talked about by his peers and even his sister.
Cultural capital, black identity, and gender roles all overlap in how these teens reflect hip-hop. Cultural capital and black identity are similar because these teens all reflected attitude, behavior and style in the way they were accepted by peers in which seem to be the black identity within the youth center. Black identity and gender roles are similar because there are roles, (attitude, style-male and female differ, and looks), that each gender must portray to be popular, which seem to be the identity of black youth.
The article, “Media/Visual Literacy Art Education: Sexism in Hip-Hop Music Videos”, focuses a lot on how women are portrayed in hip-hop videos, the sexism issues in hip-hop videos, and ways that high school teachers can help change teens views and cultural capital. Like the previous article it talks about cultural capital. This article defines cultural capital as “language, gestures, fashion, and performance,” which is similar to the definition used in the above article. Throughout the article it describes women as being portrayed as the focus of “male gaze”, attractive/desirable, young girls, sexual, and objects. By these being the views of young women in the videos it gives young girls the need to be sexual in order to be accepted by peers and be popular, also to desire a life of partying, style of hip-hop, and vocabulary to be social within popular groups. Hip-hop videos degrade women within their lyrics, media out-put (MTV & VH1), photos, and scenarios used to get their degrading point across as to what women are worth in music videos.
There are very few female rapper’s in the hip-hop industry; the article calls this “Feminist Rap”. The article explains how some of the women of hip-hop bring women and themselves up, having self worth, and not portrayed the way men do in their music videos. Feminist rap such as Salt-N-Pepa and Queen Latifah are examples of women that use their videos and lyrics as ways to promote women, women’s importance, and self worth. The article gives examples of songs these two feminist rappers use to break sexism and female bodies as the norm to exploit. Songs like “Ladies First” by Queen Latifah “Latifah calls for respect and self-love among African-American women, promotes the importance of womanhood, and demands equal treatment for all.” and “Shake Your Thang” by Salt-N-Pepa “the group reclaims the right of women to take control of their own bodies and sexuality.” This demonstrates that hip-hop music can be expressed without degrading and exposing women.
The last article, “The Exploitation of Women in Hip-hop Culture”, focuses mainly on how men of hip-hop exploit women in and out of their music videos and . The article states that “mainstream American culture is sexism and misogyny”, otherwise saying that the American culture is to have hatred toward women and using them as sex symbols. Exploitation toward women is used and accepted by men, women, children/teens, media, and the artist that promote it in their videos. The lyrics and images in hip-hop videos include a mix of woman of all races, but have a significant amount of blacks that are represented as sex objects/symbols. The article suggest that men (rappers) promote themselves as pimps and the women as their hoes, prostitutes, and someone that obeys what they say. The article also talks about an interview that was done in Vibe Magazine with women of the hip-hop industry. The women explain themselves as being worthless, uneducated women, and had nothing to give, so they feel that why would a man want something like that, so they felt the need to give something and they gave their bodies. It is ridiculous that “Men thought that women were only worth giving them sexual favors, and women thought men are only worth giving them money.”
These articles all have a connection that teens are influenced by hip-hop and its videos, women are seen as sex objects, that cultural capital is a big influence, and that men need little to be seen as “the man” and over women. The male dominated hip-hop industry has a lot of effect on how teens reflect it (dress, act, and view each other), women view their self worth, and how it has become the culture for many. Hip-Hop has a huge impact on social identity and will only continue unless something is changed.
Works Cited
Andreana Clay. (2003). “Keepin' it real: Black youth, hip-hop culture, and black identity.” The American Behavioral Scientist, 46(10), 1346-1358. Retrieved October 4, 2009, from ABI/INFORM Global. (Document ID: 350239881).
Sheng Kuan Chung. (2007). “Media/Visual Literacy Art Education: Sexism in Hip-Hop Music Videos.” Art Education, 60(3), 33-38. Retrieved October 2, 2009, from Research Library. (Document ID: 1275874881).
Ayanna. “The Exploitation of Women in Hip-hop Culture.” My Sistahs A Project from Advocates for Youth. October 2, 2009.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Video Comp. & Cont.
The two videos on Ted.com by Seth Godin & Clay Shirky have many contrast and some comparisons that make them stand out from each other. They both have the concept that “the internet brings people together & makes connections”, but explains, talks, and refers to it in many different ways. Both believe that the fast paste of the internet gets people together and spreads news and ideas faster than television and all other sources. They have similar presentations by both using big screens, pictures, and having a huge audience of people listening to them.
These two videos have many differences that makes one more powerful and one more interesting. Both have the same idea, but different takes on the way the internet is used. Seth Godin’s presentation was about the power to create movements (tribes) through the internet and to specify a group of people with your ideas and build on it. Clay Shirky’s presentation was about the history of the media, the uses of the internet, and how the internet is good in some ways, but not others. Godin’s basics of his presentation was funny with no detail, while Shirky’s basics were not funny, but had more specifics and great detail. Godin’s idea of the way the internet could be used is to make connections and make change in the world just by making those connections and using the internet to do it in other cities. Shirky’s idea is that media has changed about five times in the last five hundred years or so and by this media is being shared more quickly and easily through the internet. He also explains the many ways that the internet is not good by things being spread falsely and China wanting to shutdown the internet. They both and we all could agree that the internet is becoming a meta-media and the internet is becoming the way that people communicate and get news and ideas spread faster. People are becoming more and more reliable on the internet and both Godin & Shirky believe we should learn to use this source of media in a good/positive way.
These two videos have many differences that makes one more powerful and one more interesting. Both have the same idea, but different takes on the way the internet is used. Seth Godin’s presentation was about the power to create movements (tribes) through the internet and to specify a group of people with your ideas and build on it. Clay Shirky’s presentation was about the history of the media, the uses of the internet, and how the internet is good in some ways, but not others. Godin’s basics of his presentation was funny with no detail, while Shirky’s basics were not funny, but had more specifics and great detail. Godin’s idea of the way the internet could be used is to make connections and make change in the world just by making those connections and using the internet to do it in other cities. Shirky’s idea is that media has changed about five times in the last five hundred years or so and by this media is being shared more quickly and easily through the internet. He also explains the many ways that the internet is not good by things being spread falsely and China wanting to shutdown the internet. They both and we all could agree that the internet is becoming a meta-media and the internet is becoming the way that people communicate and get news and ideas spread faster. People are becoming more and more reliable on the internet and both Godin & Shirky believe we should learn to use this source of media in a good/positive way.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Computer Life of Miss Moe
When seeing my screen as a photo for the first time, I thought, " Wow, how is this possible? How could I have not known of this feature as much as I am constantly on the computer?". This was something new and interesting to me. When I asked some friends had they ever heard of this feature they said no, so I wonder how many people actually know of this.
This screenshot photo shows the two most typical things that I do when on the computer, while classes are in session. Most times I always have FaceBook and Yahoo IM open to chat with friends, listening to music, and the most important doing whatever work needs to be done. Rather than just getting on the computer and doing the work I originally set-out to do, I have other distractions open.
The digital world/space can be very distracting for young teens and adults because of all the possible things to do and distractions that are available. The digital world is improving day by day and is always giving people ways to be distracted. This takes away from the time and progress that should have been made in about 30 minutes.
We can better understand the process of digital space by using it wisely and when needed. When using a computer and your mission is to get work done don't have 4 windows open that have nothing to do with your work. Most college students, like myself, have unnecessary windows open and get easily distracted ,which makes it harder to understand the process of using digital space wisely.
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