Brief Summary Of My Investigation

The youth of today are under an enormous amount of pressure due to negative and irresponsible marketing from the hip hop/rap industry. Particularly black rap artists have chosen to portray their work through a very narrow-minded representation, compared to those of ethnic backgrounds who tend to create a more diverse and individual image of themselves. It is this common representation of black rap artists that has resulted in the many negative conceptions and stereotypes that exist in hip hop music today. These stereotypes have helped to generate huge ammounts of cash for rappers and added great market value, however, they have not helped at all in terms of the artform.

I feel that rap/hip hop cannot be held responsible for sexism, as sexism has existed in western society for thousands of years. However, it is very noticable and important to realise that hip hop as become a highly sexually influanced industry, to the point where it is almost a requirement for black rap artists to exploit women in order to gain success. It is this particular issue in the hip hop genre which has interested me and it is for that reason i will be developing in in depth investigation around the topic.