our affiliaten..I Love Hip Hop Blog- Hip-hop has persistently been criticized for misogyny and lewdness in countless instances. This criticism has become so commonplace and widespread that the notion now seems archetypical. If you listen to a variety of rap music long enough you’ll likely hear “b*tch,” which is largely perceived as misogynistic and indecent. Certainly hip-hop is not the only entertainment pocket that flares the expletive
Reality television has boasted the lives of prosperous and privileged women in dramatic fashion with shows, like Real Housewives of Atlanta and Love and Hip-Hop, that depict progressive yet sometimes tactless women. Sit and watch and you’ll hear “b*tch” almost innumerably. A recent column targets “Love and Hip Hop: Atlanta,” and details the so-called “Mass Media University,” and its ill effect on womanhood particularly that of young, black American women.
One week before the column was published, west coast emcee Crooked I, released the song, “Ratchet Heauxs” (pronounced “hoes”). The day before the posting Lupe Fiasco gifted us with his single, “B*tch Bad.” “Ratchet Heauxs” is a filibuster tirade about a deceptive, less than favorable woman. “B*tch Bad” is a conscious spin on the ever so popular expression “bad bitch,” which can be interpreted as some twisted testament of feminine pride or just a man’s immature appraisal of a woman.The songs are dissimilar in style and approach, but nevertheless “b*tch” undergirds both.
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“Bitch” is to Women as “Nigger/Nigga” is to Black people. I feel it is NOT a double edge sword. There is no way to justify the use of either term in a positive way. No matter how you spin it they are derogatory terms. Terms originally invented and or used to oppress and suppress the power and potential of Black people and Women. I happen to love Black people and Women, as they are fully human and should be respected and recognized as so. I hope Women and Black people can love themselves enough to shed the terms. They are unnecessary. I have personally chosen as a Man and furthermore a Black man to release “Nigger/Nigga” I want no part of it. As a Man in LOVE with women I have also chosen to release “Bitch” from my vocabulary. No human deserves that type of degradation, no matter how big of an asshole sorry piece of sh*t a man or woman may be. Let all that sh*t go please! It’s weighing ALL of us down. We have the opportunity and potential to become more than just a “Nigga Bitch”… to all you self proclaimed “Bitch Niggas”.