Who Is Really To Blame For Hip-Hop Misogyny?
By shelz. When people discuss women in Hip-Hop the conversations inevitably end with the same conclusion. There aren’t many and the few who do eat off the industry have no authority. There are stylists and video models and a small corps of DJ’s sprinkled here and there, but the femcee seems to have been replaced by blow up dolls with mics glued to their hands. Women are presented as the minority and the maligned. There is no one in power to serve the feminist cause; to plead the fairer gender’s case. The men with the reins contort and warp the female image, removing balance and depth and women can do nothing but look on in horrified astonishment; voiceless. This would be a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions if it were true. It’s not. The Hip-Hop glass ceiling has often been used to explain the rampant misogyny in the music. However, women have been present in the upper echelon of the business since the beginning. Women are in key roles all over this male-dominated industry. Since the
