Pre-Reading Questions Week 13

In my opinion Race and crime is connected because most of minorities’ come from poverty and neighborhoods called the “Ghetto” and cops are always there to monitor the neighborhood. I also feel like race also connects to crime because police officers are focusing on appearance and where there are more crime being committed in. Police officers tend to patrol and focus on high crime town and cities that have high minority population and are low income communities. In my opinion crime can happen everywhere. Crime just doesn’t happen in the ghetto it can happen in towns that are wealthy and are well off. They need to treat every community the same I get that low income can have more crime because its poor but it can happen in communities that have money.

The function of prisons in America is MONEY, POWER, and CONTROL. But I also feel that prisons also keep our country safe putting away those criminals and murders away. But again… I feel that our prison system is over impacted and we pay a lot of tax dollars to these companies. How I see it. And what I’ve heard from my family that prisoners have a lot of freedom. It’s who you know inside and what connections you have. Every time my cousins get released from the system they end up going back because they said its easier in there than out here when they are released.

Prison-Industrial Complex – the “industrial” part means it’s a private prison company and businesses that supplies goods. These businesses and companies can hire in the prison and can pay the prisoners less than they would a person that is not incarcerated.  These private prison industries incarcerated the prisons that committed minor crimes.

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In the film I learned a lot about hip hop and the culture and where it came from. One main interesting that I learned from the film that most rappers were talking about sex, drugs, women, and violence. As a consumer, I just listen to the beats and the rhythm. After I watched the film I put one of my rap songs on while I was listening to it, in today’s society most of music still talk about sex, drugs, and women not so much on violence. Comparing today’s music and the music back in my middle school years it has calmed down a little bit. This film didn’t change how I feel or think about hip hop. I feel hip hop/rap artistes job is to entertain the listeners and the consumers.

The filmmaker Burton Hurt made some arguments with this film.

The hyper-masculinity and violence present in hip-hop is part of the larger American culture that values and promotes violence. (Eths100f12.blogspot.com)
               I don’t agree. I don’t feel that people are going out in the world and shooting people but I do agree on the hyper-masculinity. The hip hop/rapper artists are a big role model on kids these days how they are dressed mostly young little boys. Do I feel that hip hop/rap artistes have a big role in kids I agree but to an extent.

 Hip-hop is both homophobic and homoerotic simultaneously. (Eths100f12.blogspot.com)

               Yes I agree. In the film when Busta Rhyme was getting interviewed and was question about gays, and lesbians he couldn’t even look the guy in the guy that was interviewing him or answer the question he just walked away. I also agree hip-hop/rap is homoerotic simultaneously because most artists that are promoting their music also when they are preforming their shirts come off and are greased up and showing off their body. It attracts both sex because women love to see muscle and buff men and guys also do to even though they don’t think they are but they are because most guys look how big they are and they want to be built as the artist.

 Music corporations, which are run by wealthy white men, are responsible for prioritizing the messages that hip-hop promotes. (Eths100f12.blogspot.com)

            It goes both ways. I don’t know where I stand because the artist makes their music and they choose what to rap or sing about. But again the music corporation has the right not to promote it. I don’t know where I stand on this argument.

 The genre of hip-hop is denigrating to women. (Eths100f12.blogspot.com)

          I agree that hip-hop/rap artist do put a bad name for women. Not all women just want shake their asses and are half naked. Women have the right to wear bikinis and show off their bodies but it’s not okay for men to touch women without their consent. I don’t care what the lyrics say in the music it’s just not okay. It’s disrespectful and men need to treat women like how they would treat their mothers.

 Hip-hop/rap music has its pros and cons. But am I going to stop listening to it, No I’m.

 

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Pre-Reading Questions Week Eleven

Hip Hop music’s purpose is about inspiration and motivation of someone life. In hip hop the person is telling the listener about their life but not in a book in a different way with music and rhythm. Hip Hop isn’t just entertainment of the person that is singing it or talking about it but the listeners such as I is entertainment. The music has a story but not all music is a story about the artist life. If you listen to the words and not the music or the rhythm it’s such a powerful story. Most of the artists of Hip Hop are black males and black females. But now it’s diverse in the hip hop industries and even rappers are diverse.  Hip Hop is a problem around the world some parents don’t let their children listen to it. My parents hated and it wasn’t allowed to be heard in my house. My dad thought it was provoked and it wasn’t music it was music that downgraded women. I don’t think it is. I think it’s just music and its entertainment and that’s all I hear.

Hip Hop has its pro and cons. The positive some artist talks about love and how its life and some people can relate and also some artist music can be motived. Athletes such as me listen to rap or hip hop to get me in the mood before my games. One song that I always listen to is “My Time” by Fabolous ft Jeremih. This song talks about how to go hard and how to live in every moment. It motives me and gets me in the mood. The cons about hip hop most artist talk about sex, girls calling them the B word or hoes, sluts, and tricks and parties and drinking. But I can understand it talks about all that but its entertainment and the music isn’t for everyone. Also the music videos most videos are provoked because there are females that are half dressed and naked and just dancing with the stuff coming out.

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Pre-Reading Questions Week Eleven