Women in Rap Videos

Women in rap music videos are portrayed as these sexual objects in today’s society. These images of African American women are hyper sexualized. In these rap videos, they pretty much have only women of color dancing, seducing the men, or for example: licking lollipops, as they have in Lil Wayne’s music video for “Lollipop.” They also have multiple women dancing/grinding on one man. All of this is offensive and disgusting in my opinion. Many of these men, if not all, in the videos also treat the women like nothing. There are many videos that I have seen where women are seducing the men and then they just walk away like it’s nothing to them. It’s almost portrayed like it was just another women having sex with.
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy some of this music, but I am starting to ask myself ‘why.’ Why do I listen to music where is only gives off that women are to be seen and not heard, that women are objects, that women are only there to have sex with. All of these rap songs sing about the same exact thing over and over again; getting drunk and having sex with as many women as possible. Even the title of the songs I’m hearing are offensive to some degree; “She ain’t goin to tie me down,” “Shawty is the s**t,” and “break your heart.” All of these songs sing about is having sex with women. They play all of these songs on the radio for young people to hear. All this is telling them is that women are there for sex and that’s it. I’m just getting to the point where I don’t want to listen to it anymore. I use to like it, but it’s become so horrible and degrading that it bothers me now. And to be honest, the men that sing about women like this, have no respect from me.