Presentaion

Christen Forner 

"Unladylike Divas": Language, Gender, and Female Gangsta Rappers

This article is about how female gangster rappers are bringing more femininity to the gangsta rap genre but are still using the fowl or taboo language, loudness, and power in their lyrics. Some may take the way these women are telling about their lives and expressing feeling the wrong way because they are using unladylike language and are talking about things that are not to be talked about by women. For example in their verbal expression some may talk about their own personal stories discussing violence or sexual situations can be considered "unladylike". Women rappers express them self's in the same kind of way as male rappers do, making them categorized as "unladylike".

 

"Where my girls at?"

African American women are a big part of hip-hop genre/ black pop culture. They are in music videos, dancers, models, and performers. But sometimes their presence in these music videos is perceived as showing black women's sexuality and exploits their bodies. They are seen as just attractive entertaining images in some people's point of views. In this article they did a sample of 56 music videos. Some things found were that only sexually available women were in these types of videos. There were no pregnant women, mothers or women over 30 found in the videos. Their role was found to be sexual and not taken seriously. Even Black female artist were shown to be public under the conduction of a male help. An example given was about Queen Pen's video where Teddy Riley her producer, and song writer was featured in her video which ended up being all about him showing that Queen Pen is not the writer or creator of her own accomplishments.