As stated earlier, there were several many ways to...

As stated earlier, there were several many ways to how women were exploited in the hip hop industry for many different reasons. Trend could be one of them, but it can be assumed that recently music lost its original theme of “exploring talents” to more of a commercial based business in the international market. The trend does not have anything to do with the ideology of “sex sells”, it’s more based on the attitude of showing off more skin than it is needed to feel free and build a little self esteem. I asked some girls, ages range from 18 to 21 and club almost every week end, to why some women put on clothing that still shows off a lot skin? Their answers were that there are three kinds of women that belong to this community: the ones that show off their attitude (attitude could vary from having the feeling that they’re exactly like those girls that are displayed in hip hop video clips to the ideology of being, and I quote from one of the girls being questioned, “nasty”), the ones that are controlled by a parent or any other factor but when they have the opportunity to be free (in a club) they can expose themselves freely, and the last type would be girls who just love to either belong or who happened to come from the background which allows them to expose themselves in that way.


In all three case scenarios, the results for these cases have resulted with the same conclusion; it successfully produced a huge negativity into its concepts, and more or less raised a lot of questions towards its present era. Some of the girls that were questioned happen to believe that the concept of women being exploited this way is “too slutty”, however their conclusions were that each woman is to her own decision-making.

This is not an attack against the culture, but more or less an analysis of what exactly those women do to enhance the offenses of their display of body parts. “All women, but mostly black women in particular are seen in popular hip-hop culture as sex objects” (Ayanna, 2008), in her article “The Exploitation of Women in Hip-hop Culture” she briefly reaches out to her “sistahs” and explains how the culture might’ve done bad to those women.

Sex offenses and misogynistic attitude is generally produced from that industry, she specifically addresses that not all hip hop/rap artists are exactly doing the same, which is what this topic also agrees with. Her main concern is hoping that this trend shall not be an “America culture”( Liyanarchi, 2005).

The confusion here is whether that the fashion is becoming a trend or is it the acceptance of offensive sexism into our modern society is the trend? Population that differs from men, women, boys, girls and children that varies in ages watch, dance, sing and consider the culture as a normal everyday aspect of music entertainment