Why do Black women continue to support Gansta rap/ Hip Hop?

Answer 1

You can't just say Black women though, women in general would be better. A lot of the songs degrade women beyond belief. Unfortunately there are not enough women smart enough to know they are being talked about in no way possible a women should be. To put it more simply, would you want someone to talk about your mother like that? Many people's opinions would change. Basically I believe that we should start educated all young children regardless of race, color, gender, that you should not disrespect one another in that manner or at all!

Answer 2

Why does anyone continue to support it? Not just black woman. As a music lover of all forms, I just think it's a very stale genre of music. The message is the same as day one. Nothing new. No new stories. So if the message is more or less the same, than you would look at look at gangsta rap/hip hop from a differant angle, the music it self. The sound. I feel that most of the music in gangsta rap sounds the same now days. Same productions skill, same beats. Most of it lacks evolution and growth. The reason it's as big as it is, is because it is marketed right. Eminem endorsed 50 Cent like no other and look where 50 Cent is at now. I personally don't think he is that great, but I do believe they are a ton of people that lack the ability to think for themselves. They are a bunch of lost sheep. Not everything that Spin,Rolling Stone, MTV, Clear Channel radio endorses is good quality material. If the music personally moves you than go for. If it doesn't than it doesn't. Don't buy into it, Don't listen too it. I am sorry because I am a 27 yr old white male, not a black female but maybe I can be of assistance.

Answer 3

Not all rap music is degrading to black women. Some of the less glorified artist of hip hop are not spewing obscenities about women. I still do listen to some rap music, but not a lot these days. I'm more offended that the rap music today is teaching our youth about getting all that bling but not telling them how to get it in the right way. Also, many young people don't even actually listen to the words in a song. I actually took time to listen to some of the lyrics in recent releases and nothing really made any sense. The music that you can actually understand doesn't just objectify women but gives male and females false hopes in life. For someone to be rich and have all that bling happens only one in a million. So giving them hopes of riches that they'll never obtain is more damaging then calling black women whores. If you know you aren't doing the things the women are doing in songs and on video then you shouldn't be offended because they are not talking about you. Look at the bigger issue.

Answer 4

I will read the answers with interest because I do not know why ANYBODY supports this sub-standard junk- not only gangster but the woman and human degrading rap stuff in general.

The organizations for women's rights and the organizations for ending the abuse of women have never, to my knowledge, made objection to this degrading language..

When you can drive down a public street in America and hear some mental giant booming "Beat that b----h, beat that b----h,
repeat at least 20 times, there is something wrong. And I am
hearing this trash with the car windows rolled up!!

You know I am giving just one mild phrase as an example. These music "artists" call women every degrading thing they can think of.

Perhaps it is time to boycott the rap scene. Let the women's organizations stop telling abused women how to be assertive and assert themselves to get some of this stuff toned done.

Now maybe some black women of quality, with the same stuff as Ms. Parks, will come forward. I may not be female, black, or able to jump -- but I know what is right. I know that rap in general is not doing anything much for women outside of a rapers immediate family.

Answer 5

First. It's mot just black women that those songs degrade, (hell that was a white women in Jay-Z' s Big Pimpin video that Dame Dash poured champagne on) All woman should boycott the stuff. But also, I don't think women "support" it, it's more like the music and images are forced down our throats. I can't even listen to modern music anymore unless it's R&B, otherwise it's strictly old school music. But a better question would be, why do the women participate in the music, ie video girls. What is it about what we teach our young girls today that makes them think that shake their stuff on camera and letting guys objectify them is the only way to make money? Also, why do we just point the fingure at hip-hop/ BLACK artists when the objectification of women is all over. ( it was a white rock group that wrote Cherry Pie and it was rock groups who initially had the video ho's dancing in cages on stage) Also, look on network t.v at any number of beer commercials with at half naked women trying to sell you beer. I think we point to hip-hop because, as usual, it the easiets target. But the problem this society faces is way bigger than just 50Cent and Nelly.

Answer 6

It's not just black women, and while a lot of rap is stupid and lyrical nonsense, some of it is not. I even like some of the songs some women think are degrading. It's just music, and yes, while it influences some, others know better. Should we persecute Stephen King because some people are afraid of the dark? Or what about some of the things a lot of black authors write about? (Zane comes to mind, I think her books are just awful!)
If a person doesn't like it, they don't have to listen to it, same goes with everything. I refuse to listen to certain songs because I think they're dumb. But as for supporting it....well, depends on what you mean by support. Do I pay tickets to see concerts? Do I purchase every album that comes out on the shelves? No, and no. I listen to what I listen, mostly from what I borrow from other people and hear on the radio. I don't even watch MTV or BET anymore. Maybe the puts me out of the loop, I don't know.

Answer 7

I artwork contained in the music marketplace and that i have been on some video shoots. There are 4 sorts of video performer: a million) the more youthful sort how quite thinks it may help her benefit notoriety for her modeling/performing occupation. they're the hardest to artwork with because they nevertheless have "criteria" and are engaged on their popularity speeches even as they should be shaking it. 2) the veteran who's now "pigeon-holed" into videos, (became once a a million yet, did no longer have adequate expertise). 3) Strippers (actual unique dancers) they are going to do some thing for $$ and they are more low priced then specialist fashions 4) the chick that thinks the artist contained in the video is going to fall in love including her and take her away to his mansion (i have under no circumstances considered it ensue) they are going to take her to the trailor in spite of the indisputable fact that! it isn't any longer purely black females, and that i'm no longer mad at absolutely everyone who's attempting to come back up in this international. do exactly not delay production (costing the list business enterprise money)

Answer 8

Now that's a great question........the message is degrading, the lyrics are fowl, and the gangsta look as a whole shows the intelligence of a chimpanzee! Can you imagine if the Beatles lyrics were as fowl as rap and kid's would sit at a light in their cars and boost the volume to irritate others in close proximity? In the old days the cops would have thrown their dumb *** in jail!

I think you have to question the whole gangsta identity in respect to what it has done to society, blacks and white supporters have worked hard to give the blacks equality in all aspects of our society. It used to be that a black person wanting acceptance in the social world would strive to get an education and assume responsibility. I once had a black student tell me that he would feel successful, when he could articulate in speech well enough in a telephone conversation that the person whom he would conduct business with would be unable to distinguish his race.

The blacks strived to dress the part and show communication skills that put them on equal footing with another race.

Now the NBA players have to be told what is acceptable for dress and young blacks show up for job interviews dressed hip hop gangsta! Even white middle class wannabes that lack the ability to cope in the real world take on the hip-hop gangsta look and poor English. Many of the blacks and wiggers here on answers even spell in a manner that suggests their orientation to hip-hop or gangsta. "wit" "sista" "bro" "waz up wit dat" "he be my man"

Answer 9

I understand your question 100% but I must say that I think it may be a little dated. As we as a society have become more globalized, what defines us is no longer limited to a type of music, tv show, or athletic sport. We as a people have learned to define ourselves and not be bound by the constrints of mass media and the pictures it creates. True, there are those that identify with gangsta rap, but just as many identify with classic R&B. I prefer to define myself through the successes of my children and their relationships with their mom, me and God. In my world EVERYTHING else takes a back seat

Answer 10

The question is why would anyone support Gangsta Rap/Hip Hop? We all have mothers, sisters, and cousins.