I’m sorry if I talk about what I’ve experienced in my lifetime. I call women bitches and ‘hos because all the women I’ve met since I’ve been out here are bitches and ‘hos.
‘And what do you call your mother?’, a female reporter asks.
I call her “woman”, but I’m not f — -ing my mother. If I was f — -ing you, you’d be a bitch.
— Bushwick Bill
Aside the portrayal of black women in music videos and rap lyrics, what does this snippet from the life of a rapper, in this case Bow Wow, tell us about their peculiar world of women and money?
Rappers are often quoted as saying that they merely depict life as they see it. Is this true or is there a more accurate description? Do rappers depict a stereotypical fantasy in which women do as they are told?
Clearly, Bow Wow’s domestic and international appeal raises these questions.
Perhaps, the answers cannot be complete without noting that it is not the black community itself that financially empowers the young rap artist (by funding their lyrics and tours). However it is the black community that raises and nourishes them.
What do you think? People have this to say.
I wanted to say ‘absolutely ridiculous’ and leave it at that. But I just have to say more. Really? Really? Come on man. These women! Really? All lined up and waiting in the backstage for Bow Wow – ‘cos what? He has money? And it’s not just Black women. It’s all sorts of women. I mean shizzle! I need to get rich.
I love women! Hahaha! This guy is funny. Who doesn’t love women/men? Hahaha. If he meant I like to use women, then we’ll be talking.
He seems to be doing great overseas. Not that great here.
But the dialogue on black women and money in rap is a serious one. I think in the end we all just need to recognize. It’s not the women nor the Bitches. It’s money itself. When people don’t have, they do anything to get it. Won’t you?
Men are equal culprits, if it was cool to get with a rich woman, I bet you a lot more guys would do it than women. I fee that this is just another side of the same coin really.
Lol. “If I was f–king you, I’d call you a bitch!” That’s a great line. Notorious and ill-conceived, but great line. You know what I mean. I can see that in a rap song.
On the serious side, this will always be a big issue. I think it’s a cycle that feeds on itself. Rappers attract the bitches and it becomes lucrative to be a bitch. Like Cricket said, if it was cool for a guy to do the same, yeah, why not?
Sad but true. The groupie life is lucrative if they nail the right rapper or athlete. But then the question becomes: can they keep him? Because otherwise, there’s a long line waiting to take their place. No surprise that groupies are disposable.
In this video, Bow Wow does not call women bitches. He just says he loves women. I thought the video is about rappers calling women bitches.
Good point. I am using this video simply to pose a more general question of the depiction of women in rap and music videos. If this is Bow Wow’s world, where all these girls are lined up to just do anything for him, with him, is it then outrageous what we see in the lyrics and music videos?
I see. But this world of ‘Bitches’ is such a small sample of women that it is not representative of women.
True. That’s why it is an issue since this small sample, which is not representative of women, is the world they live in and rap about.
So when they rap about it they are not rapping about all women then.
Yes, not all women. Obviously their mothers are not bitches and whores but other women are, at least in their small world.
The other issue is simply that nobody else thinks about this small world of women when they listen to rap music. The lyrics become a stereotypical social commentary on all black women. And this is inaccurate perhaps.
In addition, these rappers are financially funded by people who are not black, let alone people who are women.
Agree. I guess those guys pull the rappers and the black women into spreading a wrong perception of African-American society to the world. Alas to their satisfaction!
I wouldn’t quite put it like that. But, no doubt, that is what it seems like.
Where’s Nkrumah and W.E.B? Come out and air your views.
Yeah, I wonder what they think.
Somehow it’s been instilled in our culture to disrespect women and for them to disrespect themselves. It’s a shame but that’s what’s making money these days so I can’t say I expect it to change.
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