There are different ways that hip hop music expresses gender issues. One main issue is that many guy rappers refer to having sex with women and not having anything more. some of the rap songs are degrading to women. One main example is Lil Wayne, he has a song named "Every Girl in the World". The the point of the song is to f*** every girl in the world. There are other songs that talk about wanting only girls with big a**. Many rap songs today only talk about sex. Again, this is very degrading to women. Another way that gender issues are shown is that there are not many woman rappers. Many woman rappers are seen as being lesbians, which also refers to sexuality issues. Why can't woman rappers just be heterosexual women in people's minds? Woman rappers are discriminated against. Hearing a song by a female rapper is a huge thing compared to songs by men. Why is this?
In today's society I feel as though rappers need to talk about gay guys as being "faggots" and constantly saying "no homo". Those phrases are very degrading. Many male rappers say these things in their songs. When a rapper says these things, people think they are cool lines and they want to repeat them. The horrible phrases are, then, being spread. Throughout this semester, I will be researching different videos, articles, lyrics, etc to express these point in depth.

By Toni