research on various genres: hip hop

hip-hop originated from African-American music and by the late 70's it became a commercially recorded music and by the 80's with the help of run d MC and vanilla ice became very popular and regularly found its self in the music charts. the music is usually quite up tempo and is a favourite to be played at parties and clubs

the genre in itself does tend to portray woman as sexual objects and takes a misogynistic view. instead of hip-hop artists embracing themselves and their music they use the women's sexuality to sell the video's and their image as the usually are portrayed as quite dominant or in 50 cents case a pimp , which is the wrong image to be sending out to the young children who look up to these artists.