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" Some of you are way too comfortable making “hip-hop is misogynistic” the cornerstone of your comments.

First, hip-hop is a culture that encompasses a variety of different mediums commonly associated with urban culture. Graffiti, urban fashion, rap(both MCing and DJing) and breakdancing were the original forms of expression, but hip-hop has spread into many other forms of expression

Moving on, some rap music is misogynistic. The key word there is “some”, since off the top of my head I can give you a laundry list of rappers who are a credit to the genre. Listen to someone like Lupe Fiasco or Mos Def before dropping some ignorant, off-hand bullshit about hip-hop being misogynistic.

What I find interesting is that it’s so easy to approach hip-hop as being misogynistic which divorces it from the greater truth that music as a whole has a tendency towards misogyny/sexism. Back during the 80’s there were several all-white hair metal bands releasing some of the most aggressively misogynistic/sexist music ever recorded. However, no one ever seems to bring that up or make any attempt to contextualize the erroneous perception that hip-hop is the shining star of misogynistic music. Misogyny/sexism bulldozes its way into every form of expression we have, not just rap.

Just know, the next time you start with some ignorance like “hip-hop is misogynist” you’re insulting an entire culture that has been crucial in publicizing the socioeconomic plight of black and brown people in this country while serving as the unifying culture for many of those same people.

Have some damn class about stuff that isn’t made for white people
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From a commenter on Jezebel with regard to some Jezebel comments on Jay Z’s strong backpedalling on his lyrical misogyny. (via leonineclaire)

one time a (white) friend of mine said I was homophobic for not liking acoustic folk and then said she didn’t like hip-hop cause it was misogynistic
we’re not really friends anymore

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