Rap lyrics also describe what it means to be a bad bitch. And the women in their video are often the depiction of their description. The body of a bad bitch is said to be thick. The ideal measurements are 36” 24” 40”, give or take a little. I mean take a moment to look at a hip hop video. All the females are light skinned with a big butt. They’re throwing money, with cars in the background while they’re smacking females on the butt. Take the picture to the left of the page. This is a up and coming rapper named Coco Kiss mixtape cover. On it, it shows that she has everything that guys like. The body image along with other features. She also walks around with a entourage of females called the Durrty Girls. They have been seen in manyhip hop videos along with Coco Kiss Hit 'Onion booty.'
Judgments are often made about the video vixens too. They are said to be strippers. But what about the female that’s wanting to gain exposure for her modeling career or craft? Her new lipstick line, or jewelry. Most of the younger female audience thinks that if your butt is not big, you don’t have the perfect body or you are just not that attractive. We’ve even seen rappers like Nicki Minaj butt be talked about all over the media. She is what hip hop believes is the perfect body. People has done extreme things such as surgery and butt shots to make their butt bigger. There is also a simpler way to get it called the booty pop. A booty pop is basically paddled panties made to give your butt a boost. What happened to being yourself and excepting the skin you’re in. This is indeed bring down the confidence in our young ladies.
In this video, Coco Kiss dances with her 'Durrty Girls' in her hit single 'Onion Booty.' These raunchy lyric and vaguer dance movement makes me understand why some may think this way about video models.
After researching about different vixens in hip hop, I found a woman that stood out to me. Being a model or video vixen in hip hop dancing in videos with degrading lyrics, I mean, the respect could NOT be there. Imagine being a model in hip hop and trying to 'make it.' Whether that be fashion design acting, or whatever else. One of the biggest ways to gain exposure 'hip hop' can't help represent you in a positive way. Here in this video a vixen shares her story with hip hop.
“We see women in music videos of all genres from hip-hop to pop to rock to country. There is a lot of talk about the images we see of young women, especially in hip-hop videos, but is it all hype or real cause for concern?”
“What are the images we see of women in videos? Are women being shown as sex objects?How does this affect the way we feel about women, or who we are as women? Or is it all just purely entertainment? Does the depiction of women in the videos affect the way women are treated in society?”
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“They think of women as a possession...like money and bling. The music also corrupts the minds of the people, saying that sex is not a sacred way of showing affection but merely a hobby.”
In hip hop, it is blatantly shown that women are portrayed as “trophies”- like a prize, a bling or of status-conscious men. Especially in our music industry, in hip-hop videos where women are treated like sexual objects for mere pleasure and a factor for boosting a man’s status in reality.
“Also, women begin to feel that they need to dress and act a certain way or they will not be accepted by men and the rest of society. In the end, it is up to women just as much as it is up to men if any change is going to be made. The entertainment industry knows that sex sells so until sales go down or ratings drop, I do not see an end to the current images.”
-Rachel, USA
Nowadays, women really have this feeling that they have to do things in certain ways to be able to catch up with the changing society. And now, if you would not flaunt your butt, breasts and much of your skin, men would not notice you and you would be a laughing stock. It is saddening but we could put a stop to this.
“I'm sorry, but its not about morals here its about money. Pay someone enough and they will do anything. The artist wants to make money, the producers, the writers, the dancers; they all want to make money.”
–Bec, Australia
I know there is a 'profit-motive' thing going on but we should not be selfish enough to think about making money and cause an awful lot of disgrace and immorality afterwards. Put a stripper or an almost naked girl in a scene would surely fire up the video. But it is not all about money. I totally disagree with putting morals aside.
"Even the title "candy" suggests that these women are less than people - that
they're just sweet things there to provide moments of pleasure to these hideous,
untalented, misogynistic rappers.”
–Laura, Dublin
These videos would surely be hits but they are not contributing to the industry, they are establishing an immoral and outrageous world where men think they are gods and things like their “fancy cars”, huge cribs, blings and even “women” as human beings, are treated like possessions and stuff that add up to a man’s status and “coolness." They begin to think they’re all over the world. It is NOT good. If it will continue to be like this, women in the future would be treated like slaves, sexual objects, ornaments or dirt. It’s such a disgrace. Ever heard of the word “respect” before? Because it is what the world needs and what we should have.
i also continuously ask myself why some video vixens do it. Some rappers go as far as talking about some in their music such as rapper The Game did in his hit single 'Wouldn't get Far.' I love this video because it exposes some of the truth behind some of the hip hop video girls while on set. He calls out some of the ladies that has done a lot of downgrading things to jump start their careers. He says "You wouldn't get far, fucking them rap stars, you know who you are. i wrote this song for you." Listen to the lyrics:***
