tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7302245627574027504.post8928638600039786568..comments2019-05-15T23:59:20.159-07:00Comments on Feminist Legal Theory: Keep ya head up: Tupac Shakur on women's rightsLisa R. Pruitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16469550950363542801noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7302245627574027504.post-86273792179028338072015-03-12T04:10:46.007-07:002015-03-12T04:10:46.007-07:00I think record companies have figured out that cat...I think record companies have figured out that catering to indoctrinated customers (or dumbing down the audience) is more profitable than producing good music. If you can use the big booty/wealth/thug lyfe formula to easily make money, why would anyone work harder than they have to? Artists also begin to shrink their creative vocabularies when consumers and record execs put expectations on them to fit into their genres. Hopefully, everyone will start realizing we've invested way too much time into making divisive, hateful, or intellectually stunted messages into humorous, evocative, and efficient scenes a faire and phrases. But we probably won't because we cannot wean ourselves off from using sexism, racism, etc. as excuses and weapons in the Grand Competition.Jessica S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13966553584000077340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7302245627574027504.post-63760613807177544062015-03-09T20:04:59.903-07:002015-03-09T20:04:59.903-07:00@Hart: Yes, in many ways the genre has devolved in...@Hart: Yes, in many ways the genre has devolved into a reflection of the endemic sexism of our society writ large. I recently heard a song on the radio, and the lyrics went: "all my bitches got real hair, screaming with the top down... I'm a bougie ass nigga left the roof at home." It's a top 40 pop-rap song. <br /><br />The sentiment of pride in being with women that do not have weaves is the exact opposite of Tupac's pride in the natural beauty of a darker complexioned black woman. <br /><br />Moreover, the pride in being bourgeois sits in direct opposition to Tupac's lamentation concerning rich kids driving Benz and him still trying to hold onto surviving friends. <br /><br />It makes me wonder what suit at the record company asked the rappers of the aforementioned lyrics to write such things. And, more importantly, why?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06223806309227236626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7302245627574027504.post-54561463324109925862015-03-03T20:44:19.625-08:002015-03-03T20:44:19.625-08:00I wasn't familiar with the song, so thanks for...I wasn't familiar with the song, so thanks for sharing it with us. Having taken a look at the lyrics, the song could be problematic as a feminist anthem, but I agree that it shines a spotlight on the lives of poor women of color (and the quiet stoicism society asks them to exhibit in the face of hardship) -- something we don't see nearly enough of in contemporary hip hop. In that sense, I feel like the artform has largely failed to realize its potential as an amplifier of marginalized voices. The norm in today’s music, it seems, is to glorify the objectification of women, and hero worship those that flaunt their disrespect towards women.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09354780104849024443noreply@blogger.com