Critique regarding the music video
“cyclone” by Baby Bash and other black American rap music videos
“cyclone” by Baby Bash and other black American rap music videos
By Lualhati Madlangawa-Guererro
Yesterday, I was curiously watching some rap music videos coming from Snoop Dogg to Baby Bash. I was quite critically curious about these videoes to the fact that I am really not into Rap music. The music video seemed to be too sensuous and sexist as every scene epicted women, in the parlance of these gangsters as their property, as “hoes” and “bitches” so to speak.
However,
How come mainstram culture shown much of these, and trying to penetrate much on the younger culture? Good is the music being sung, the tone and of the idea, but the depicting women as men’s property and men in a goon like manner? Sheesh…
In fact,
Rap music at first espouses the life of an African-American, struggle and hardship, the Ghetto as the center of their lives, anything what we may call as “life.” But then, as time goes by, it end up rather glorifying the vices, degrading women as displays showing off their butts, or even having too much eroticism in the videos including the lyrics. And yet how come here in the Philippines, most people, especially from the lower class admired those? Especially from the “Jejemon” and “Gengstuh” generation?
Well…
In assessing those hell-of-a-kind videos, do these people glorify being a lumpen, (my term for a lumpenproletarian individual) a 'refuse of all classes? That despite the glamour, the bling bling, the cars, and the women lies such dirty agenda? My parents even got angry at me just because of those videoes I am watching for this writeup, worse as they called it as pornographic just because of the women wearing scantily clad clothing.
However,
How come mainstram culture shown much of these, and trying to penetrate much on the younger culture? Good is the music being sung, the tone and of the idea, but the depicting women as men’s property and men in a goon like manner? Sheesh…
In fact,
Rap music at first espouses the life of an African-American, struggle and hardship, the Ghetto as the center of their lives, anything what we may call as “life.” But then, as time goes by, it end up rather glorifying the vices, degrading women as displays showing off their butts, or even having too much eroticism in the videos including the lyrics. And yet how come here in the Philippines, most people, especially from the lower class admired those? Especially from the “Jejemon” and “Gengstuh” generation?
Well…
In assessing those hell-of-a-kind videos, do these people glorify being a lumpen, (my term for a lumpenproletarian individual) a 'refuse of all classes? That despite the glamour, the bling bling, the cars, and the women lies such dirty agenda? My parents even got angry at me just because of those videoes I am watching for this writeup, worse as they called it as pornographic just because of the women wearing scantily clad clothing.
