Rap Music

Morgan Bilodeau

March 20,2015

      Rap Music

         During class this week we talked about women in hip hop. We specified on African American women in hip hop because we are getting more in depth about racism and feminism play together and how African American women have it harder in this male oriented world. The woman and hip hop movement started in 1976 with Sharon Jackson she made her way in the rap world by appearing at DJ Kool Here's parties. After that, many female rap artist released CDs. In class we focused on Queen Latifah, who released her first rap CD in 1989. Rap music back then used to be about women and expressing their feminist and womanist ideas. It used to be about how they were struggling and saying how bad men treated them. They expressed their ideas on how relationships really were and their music was actually realistic about what was going on at the time. Now a days woman’s rap music is about  having sex, doing drugs, getting ass…etc. I think that women’s rap music needs to go back to the way it was, it isn’t like it used to be. I think that women need to start rapping about real problem and what’s really going on in their life. They shouldn’t be rapping about stuff to get men’s attention. The real rap needs to make a come back.