Hip Hop and its influences

Hip Hop has the potential to influence people's live in a positive way. Originally this is how hip hop used to be. There were many groups that sung about their lives and the hardships they were going through at the time. Little by little the lyrics to the songs startes changing and became more about degrading not only women but men; and also about killings, drugs, and violence. What is seen most in these hip hop and rap videos are women coming out half naked. Never in the videos are women portrayed as sophisticated individuals, but rather "hoes" or "bitches". To my surprie it seema as these acts have become more and more accepted by the public especially women. For example in the video we saw in class today, when the women were asked what they thought about the way women were portrayed in rap videos they seemed aloof about it and only said that since the songs were not directly towards them it did not affect them. I disagree with this, i think because the songsd are not directed to one specific female it makes all women look bad. I believe the way women are seen is not good and should be at least a little less, and with more respect to women. Young women these days do not need to see these videos and feel like they need to act a certain way, or dress a certain way to be accepted, or attracted.