HipHop Hata
Blatantly, yes, rap hates women and even moreso LADIES. That's okay though, since I passionately reciprocate the feeling for something with such a generous contribution to mass cultural suicide. Hip Hop IS dead...and GOOD RIDDANCE. I'd love to have killed it myself. It's death will pump up the percentage of guys that become Men and Men that become Gentlemen. To be fair, though, hip hop does "enjoy" hoes. After all, they do indeed provide VOLUMES of exploitive material. **Please note that I said "enjoy" rather than like/appreciate/love/respect.

Jus Dis
I'm a 28 yr old black British woman who grew up immersed in hop hop culture. I have lived and breathed hip hop since I was a kid, I work in the music industry, am married to a rapper, and I have always defended the music and culture passionately from the many attacks against it from the media, academics etc over the years. However, having recently become mother to a son, I see things through completely fresh eyes, and have drastically re-thought my position on this issue. Current popular rap music isn't doing a d*mn thing to uplift black people, particularly black women. It perpetuates the worst, basest stereotypes about black people, and we all lose out. Black men are violent, illiterate, ignorant (and proud of it!): Black women are all big booty, money-hungry h*es. is this the message we want to send out to our own children, and to the rest of the world? I watch MTV Base aghast - why are beautiful black women shaking their backsides in men's faces while men swipe their butt cheeks with credit cards? Why are black men throwing dollar bills at their almost-naked sisters? And why are we all performing this perverse act for profit - the profit of old white men sitting in their record company offices, getting fat off pronographic images of black women and portrayals of black men as violent, ignorant criminals? Hip hop started out as a beautiful expression of the struggle of black youth - but it's morphed into a cold, hard, profit driven thing that de-bases women, and ultimately, damages the fragile minds of our youth.

Paris
Rap is not the only genre of music that portrays women in a degrading way.Dance music vids are equally bad and its getting worse. It makes it hard for girls to go out in the club without guys thinking that we are just here to put on a show to please there sexual fantasies. It gives guys the idea that we are all the same which is unfair to us girls who actually have self respect!

Genome
The guys are expected to be gangsters and the girls are just pieces of sex. Its not a pretty sight when peoples real life don't match the video they were trying to copy.

zane
it works both ways...how many vids have got topless men in them? i can think of a few with tyson beckford, tyrese, and iv never heard any girl complaining about that d'angelo, untitled vid?! surely thats demeaning to men??bottom line as a society we want to be shocked to help us escape from out everyday lives.

Essell
Unfortunately society creates stereotypes, but they are reinforced through the medium of rap in words and pictures. If you rap about disrespecting women and inciting violence, you will create an image as such. Instictively you know it is a minority that create these images through the media, but when even an element of this is adopted by others, all those other negative elements are also attributed. Is black society really so sexist and materialistic?