Why are rappers use offensive language towards women? find out for yourself.

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The word "b*tch" as applied to a woman is on the fourteenth place in the frequency of mentioning in the texts of foreign and domestic rappers. In a world where the struggle for feminists is not for life, but for death, where the #MeToo movement triumphs and views on masculinity are revised, rap has for many years remained a territory to which these trends not only hardly reach, but also deviate from them get away with the representatives of this genre. The author of samizdat Nikita Smirnov understands how the sexist language of hip-hop was formed, how the feminists are gradually trampled into it, and why the new rhetoric does not threaten him yet.

Kendrick Lamar was the first rapper to receive a Pulitzer Music Prize. The award was presented to him on May 30, 2018 by Dana Kennedy - the first black woman to head the Pulitzer administration. "This year we both make history," she said. Did Kennedy listen to DAMN. Itself, for which she presented the award? The most popular single of the album - "HUMBLE" was built on the hook "be humble". In the same song, Lamar boasted that he could abandon a girl with a child - and still win.

Rap doesn't put women in anything. Last year, a Reddit user analyzed thousands of rap lyrics - the word "b*tch" was in 14th place in terms of frequency of use. And that includes pronouns and verbs. A study by the Pudding website of 50 thousand songs defined this word in 4th place (the first word is like, used in comparative terms). Rappers read about cheating, sexual violence, threatening women with reprisals, which in 2019, against the backdrop of numerous scandals about the violation of equality and the development of new rhetoric, in general, its supporters should seem blatant. At the same time, in 2017, hip-hop became the dominant genre in American music - and the same thing is happening in Russia today.

"Loving hip-hop for a woman is the same as loving her abuser," says director Ava Duverney. Why, then, do women give them bonuses, and do feminists write columns about how they fell in love with Kendrick?

Kendrick asked the "b*tch" not to kill his vibe, talked about how with his "b*tch" he went out of town to smoke a joint (with the same or the other, he doesn't specify in his song), and boasted that he had "damn take it, there are bitches: wife, girlfriend and lover. " But this is babble in comparison with his more restive colleagues. In their songs, rappers report in detail on promiscuity, rape and beatings, and sometimes talk about their mothers.

Here's how Snoop Dogg speaks of women in the track "Bitches Ain't sh*t" from Dr. Dre's classic album The Chronic (1992):

"Bitches are stupid skins and deceit, lick these eggs and suck dick."

In 1996, the popular rapper Kool G Rap released the single "Hey Mister Mister" - a publication about the contemporary culture Complex, which will put him on the first line in the list of "The Most Cruel Songs" a few years later. Kul Ji reads about how he is "forced to beat" his girlfriend for lying to him - and describes in detail the process of "punishment".

But the rapper Sticky Fingaz on Eminem's album reports his origin:

"My mother was raped by the industry, and so I came."

On the same album, rapper Bizarre tells how he cut his mother's throat. The history of Eminem's relationship with his mother is the subject of a separate discussion. It is impossible to recall all the rappers who mistreat women. In hip-hop, this is a common place: it doesn't matter whether you are a gangsta rapper or not, from the East or West coast, the color of which gang you wear - in misogyny rappers will always find a common language.

The author of the book and the founder of the same channel, "Women's Power," Zalina Marshenkulova, noted that she doesn't listen to rap, but doesn't think that we "can forbid people to write evil texts even in postyronical format - we can only ask everyone to hate the same way. Hate not only women - and then all. Well, we can only change the culture as a whole by example and by pouring women into hip-hop. Prohibitive measures do not lead to anything good. "

After I drew her attention to the song "Clip" (the song begins with words

"Until you tear this b*tch up for f*cking, she won't stop tearing up the f*ck over you") of the Black Caraway Oil group, which hung in the recommendations of the Spotify editorial board, she added: "Such texts are fucked up. I'm against and condemn, but I wouldn't plant them. "

"But they are not serious?" How to say. If Eminem solved the problems with his mother and wife through the court, other performers arranged a trial on the spot.

In 1991, Dr. Dre, today a co-founder of the Beats brand and a businessman with assets of $ 770 million, and then a member of the odious group N.W.A., beat television presenter Di Barnes at a Hollywood party. This is how the incident described Rolling Stone magazine:

"He lifted her by the hair and" began to beat her head and right side of the body over and over again against the brick wall near the stairs, "while his bodyguard held the crowd with a pistol. After Dr. Dre tried unsuccessfully to throw her off the stairs, he began to beat her in the ribs and hands. She got out and ran to the women's restroom. Dr. Dre followed her, "again grabbed from behind the hair and began to beat in the back of the head."

Members of N.W.A. (except Ice Cube) supported Dre, saying that "the b*tch deserved it." A year later, Dre released the song "Bitches Ain't sh*t", mentioned above - it can be said on biographical material. In 2015, Dr. Dre produced a biopic about himself and the band Straight Outta Compton (Voice of the Streets at the Russian box office). The episode with Barnes is missing in the picture - like any mention of the then-rapper girl, Michelle. She explained it simply: "Why should I be there? I was just a quiet girlfriend who was beaten and told to sit and keep quiet. "

But rappers read not only about women. A significant part of this music is devoted to social issues. Kendrick Lamar received the Pulitzer Prize for "thrilling sketches that capture the complexity of modern African American life." Thanks to rap, black people got a voice. Tupac, Ice Cube, Kanye West - they all became icons of the time, expressors of the sensitivity of the modern black man. During the presidency of Barack Obama, Jay-Z and the same Lamar became guests of the White House - the symbolic significance of such a gesture can hardly be overestimated. Criticism of performers is hampered by the significance attributed to them in the media. In addition, in the era of Black Lives Matter criticism of black from the side of white is difficult - this is partly due to intersectionality.

"Intersectionality is a good thing, but it has been extrapolated too much. Initially, Kimberly Crenshaw (the creator of the framework) had in mind that the oppression of black women, white women and black men is different, because black women intersect two types of discrimination. That is all she had in mind. Intersectionality today began to consider any type of oppression as analogous to another - this is very bad, because we forget the specifics of each of them, "said Lana Uzarashvili.

How ambiguous this system is, Eminem felt on himself at the turn of the 1990s - 2000s. His biography is the rapper gold standard. He grew up without a father in poverty, ran into drugs early, dropped out of school, felt like a kind of unwanted child in America, and in rap broadcast the same sexism and homophobia that he heard in the songs of black artists.

However, Eminem was white - and soon became the "scapegoat for the media," as he called himself in the song "Renegade." All criticism that society was in no hurry to allow for black performers sounded to him. Even when in a duet with Dr. Dre he talked about how his partner "piled on Di Barnes," critics of someone else's morality were still aiming at a white upstart.

In many ways, but not only because of the race of performers, society is ready to turn a blind eye to sexism. There are other factors. First of all, the stigmatized position of black women. To escape from the veil of indifference, the victim herself must be famous - like, for example, Rihanna, beaten up by her ex-boyfriend Chris Brown. Or like Beyonce, who turned a family scandal with cheating on her husband, Jay-Z, into a media story and the popular music album Lemonade.

In addition, it is simply a huge industry with a derived formula for success. Why repair something that brings money?

Today, with the advent of feminists in rap, male performers who call themselves "conscious rappers," the debate about the acceptability of sexism in hip-hop is expanding. Leading American publications, from New Yorker to Hollywood Reporter, write about this issue. And although today Kendrick Lamar receives Pulitzer, it is possible that tomorrow he is told to be more modest.

Authors Bio:
Janett is a writer for a RusVPN blog. She also contributes articles to a variety of tech-related websites.