{"id":446,"date":"2010-09-14T22:31:17","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T04:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sebersole.wordpress.com\/?p=446"},"modified":"2010-09-14T22:31:17","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T04:31:17","slug":"misogynistic-hip-hop-lyrics-whats-the-big-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/misogynistic-hip-hop-lyrics-whats-the-big-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Misogynistic Hip-Hop Lyrics: What&#8217;s the Big Deal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In class today we discussed the\u00a0prevalence\u00a0of misogynistic lyrics in rap and hip-hop music. Unfortunately we didn&#8217;t have enough time to hear from more than a few of you, and I&#8217;m curious about what others think about this issue. To rephrase the issue, is it okay for popular rap and hip-hop artists to\u00a0denigrate\u00a0women? If so, are women paying a price for accepting attitudes and images that reduce them to sex objects and second-class citizens? And if not, why do people defend the music and the musicians that perpetrate these images? Before you weigh in, watch this five minute video on YouTube:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WjxjZe3RhIo\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WjxjZe3RhIo]<\/p>\n<p>Before posting a reply remember that this is not a forum to attack a culture, subculture, ethnic group or individuals belonging to any group. Keep your comments civil and attack the issues&#8230;not other posters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In class today we discussed the\u00a0prevalence\u00a0of misogynistic lyrics in rap and hip-hop music. Unfortunately we didn&#8217;t have enough time to hear from more than a few of you, and I&#8217;m curious about what others think about this issue. To rephrase the issue, is it okay for popular rap and hip-hop artists to\u00a0denigrate\u00a0women? If so, are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/misogynistic-hip-hop-lyrics-whats-the-big-deal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Misogynistic Hip-Hop Lyrics: What&#8217;s the Big Deal?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14,15,22,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-effects","category-media-industry","category-music","category-regulation","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}