Critique on Chapter 8 The Hip Hop Wars

Chapter 8 : There Are Bitches and Hoes

               Chapter 8: There Are Bitches and Hoes in “The Hip Hop Wars”, speaks about the icon that started the idea of calling a female a bitch or a hoe, in the black and rap community. This term came from the socially structured image of a man being dominant towards a female, and the female throwing themselves towards the male, serving him and his every need. This is what created the Pimp.

            The Pimp was this image of a man, which was created during the 1980’s Hip Hop. The Pimp was pictured to be this idol towards the black community. Where ideally strippers and groupies praised him, money was included, and of course the image of the fuzzy hat. It was all about g’s up ho’s down mentality during this time. In the chapter it explains how much this idea was promoted through artist such as Nelly, Lil’ Pimp and 50 Cent. These artists bragged about controlling women, using the word Pimp. Furthermore, movies were also exploiting it as well; such as Hustle and Flow. As stated in the text, “Dominating prostitutes and living off of their sex work” should not be how society should view women point blank; especially, when it is involving the use of physical violence towards women while calling them Bitches and Tricks.

            This chapter also explains how men think it is ok to call a women a Hoe, because they call themselves that as well. However, in my opinion men may call themselves Hoes but in a sense that it is a more like a compliment to them. How many bitches did you fuck this week, what’s your count? It’s like the more they let themselves out the higher they view themselves. Whether for girls it is the complete opposite. A woman can be exactly the same a man in a sense where she’s sleeping around, but obviously it is both disrespectful towards herself, disgusting and wrong. An issue that the book brings up in which I believe is, the how because of this male dominance, it is ok to say that every female is this way. Discrimination is a key factor in the play of Rap music.Instead of discriminating the real issues, such as the war in Iraq or poverty; they are spreading the words of a man who all he wants to do is “fuck bitches and get money”.

            Although, the rappers and hip hop artist use these terms to describe a female; some use the term to describe females they feel deserve no respect. Sometimes women are put to blame because they hyper-sexualize hip hop. Women also use bitch when speaking to one another, challenging the sexist word which I feel does not help make them any different from men. However, places them into the same category of power as men when saying it to the opposite sex. 

     In my opinion the words (Bitches and Hoes), are  only there to label the Afro american race even more than what they are labelled. It is a concept that as create years ago, and is still used now in days to discriminate women.