[dodie]

Last night heard a hot discussion about each music generation having its ups and downs, its era of failure and success and how it played a role on then and today’s society.

Shortly put - Back in the 50ties Elvis and his ‘Rockers’ were claimed to be degrading to the youth.
Then the 70ties with all the ‘demo and flower power’ artists was ruining the society and culture, then came ‘Punks’, ‘Mods’, (not POV Mods), ‘Acid’ blamed for the increase of drug abuse and even the ‘Glam Rockers’ a reason why the gays took hold on our society.

Now it is the Rap, Hip Hop etc.
But the main heated discussion (between white and black people in the discussion) was; do the images of black women in today’s videos express the general climate of our society? Do they reflect prevailing values? Do the male Rapper stars project the Black Women as "being bought and sold in a different arena?"

Many whites agreed that this Rap culture served to express (the black community's) alienation from the system?

But many Black Males agreed that the Black rappers degrade Black women in many rap songs. These so-called male hip-hop artists disrespect women in the first place, and that many of the female rappers are controlled by male managers and can only make a success when they degrade themselves in such a manner.

My opinion is that it promotes a bad image for Black Women. What is yours?

[blackthought]

true true..but u gotta know ...most of this biatchez are broke as hell..they gotta eat dress n keep up man...after watchin the katrina scenes ...i was like got damn!!! is this america.....the image to them doesnt matter as long as at the end of the day they got a hot plate....though all of it aint right but thats jst how it is....am sho most hav tried different ways to make it....n rap/hiphop has doors wide open for them...so they partly to blame as well..one.