How Does Rap Music Promote Violence Against Women

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Music has many different meanings and forms such as rock and roll, pop, R&B, rap and so many more. It can affect people in many ways such as a way for them to escape their harsh realities, having a positive impact on their behavior or used as a simple form of expressing one’s feelings. For many years, people describe rap music as “whack” or “devil music,” but those are all lies. Rap music has been a controversial topic for a long time on whether it should go or stay. There are rap songs whose lyrics openly promotes gang violence, violence against women, and so many more, but that is not entirely the truth. However, rappers in the rap music industry deal with a lot of stereotypes from society and backlash when there is not any real evidence of such violence. So rap music does not promote …show more content…

Rap music has been known through their lyrics to openly promote violence against women and many other things. An example would be the well-known rapper Lil Wayne song called “Mrs. Officer.” In the song, Lil Wayne is describing a scenario himself having rough sex with a female officer with using different forms of metaphors. This obviously degrades women as just being sex objects or sexual fantasies to men, but not all rap music is meant to be about “rainbows” or “unicorns.” Rap music is not the only industry that degrades women through their lyrics. Music like rock and roll or pop music have also been known for displaying women as being sexual beings through lyrics. Songs like these give the misconception that this all rap music is about and all it would ever be, but that is incorrect. Rap music also displays positive images through their lyrics and not just the bad. It goes to show that rap music is not as people portray it as being and just a

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