Many will argue that with the black women participating in the feminist movement along white women this helped bring a divide amongst black families and put them at odds ends instead of standing strong together. Other may also attest to the low levels of black men receiving degrees in higher education compared to black men or the high level of black men in the caught in the judicial system. Hip-Hop and RnB are important to the black culture like no other genre, it was partially built upon getting the messages that were affecting the community to the masses, but if you’ve been listening later it is apparent that the love is gone.
It was a point where love was profess more than going to the club and standing on couches with overpriced bottles in your hand. It was a time where all you needed in this life of sin was you and your girlfriend. There was a time where it was normal for artist to get on the mic and profess that they needed love, but now the genre has become so overly misogynistic that sex is the only main concern. Even the new era of RnB cats have stopped singing about the quest to find love and different scenarios that revolve around it. Music has taken a detour in finding the girl that you’ll take a life sentence for and make your wife to only being concerned about the one you can have for one night. The question is; whether today’s music is just indicative of the times that we are living in, or is it another avenue for the male dominant society to victimize, exploit, and exploit women.
Many use the argument well musicians didn’t invent domestic violence, they didn’t invent the “B” word, they aren’t responsible for the decline of marriage in the black community and the high levels of single parent households, but every time you use your stage (the mic) and dehumanize women through song you become a part of the problem and divert yourself from the solution. No one is calling for every rapper or singer to get back to making songs about love, but when you elevate a pimp, one of the most despicable figures to a high status you’ve done something wrong. Even though many artist have used their voice to stand up against these issues, most run into the hurdle of not being heard because their voice box doesn’t reach a wider demographic. It was be ignorant to ignore the appeal that Hip-Hop has to the world, things that can be deemed as detrimental are starting to becoming normalize in popular society.
For instance stripping is one of those things, instead of showering women with love and affection, the newer generation has decided to make naked women a commodity in which they shower her with dollar bills for dancing and taking her clothes off. Even though artist didn’t invent stripping they still have to be held accountable. Glamorization and glorification are an excessive concentration of things that are preexisting, you are just mirroring these oppressions back to the people and causing harm. Even if rappers don’t want to be Drake and find their love they still have a social responsibility to show a woman’s intellectual cognitive ability to do more than shake her ass.
We all understand that in Hip-Hop trends comes and go, but I thought we were taught that love supposed to last forever and not just for a couple decades. Are we the to blame that we are hearing less of “All I Need,” and more of “As Long As My Bitches Love Me?” In reality the lack of love amongst blacks didn’t begin nor will it end with Hip-Hop, but lowering the complexity of black female identity to just objects such as breast, thighs, and ass is brought is further away from adoring her heart, soul, and brain.
When we kill the love and heart then the soul goes shortly thereafter.
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