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Feminism And Pop Culture: Seal Study

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Since the 1980’s hip-hop has been one of the most popular music genres. In chapter 4 of Feminism and Pop Culture: Seal Study (written by Andi Zeisler) talks about women in the late 1980s and early 90’s broke through in the hip-hop community, but were not commercialized to sell to the young, male, and white audience. This genre is male dominated that brag about the amount of money and women they have. In the hip-hop community women were viewed as objects and some still are today, but female hip-hop artist caused changes. The movement of female hip-hop artist has been through tough times since the late 1980s till now. Queen Latifah, Salt-N-Pepa, Lil’ Kim, Foxy Brown, Missy Elliot, and Lauryn Hill were a few of the female hip-hop artist that …show more content…

On the biggest music award ceremony “The Grammy’s” Lauryn Hill made a powerful impact for hip-hop. Her debut album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill won five Grammy awards. The most important award was Album of the Year because it represented that someone made beautiful art with meaning behind it. This album empowered women not only in hip-hop, but also around the world. The year 1999 constituted a watershed moment in that Joan Morgan has called “hip-hop feminism.” Invigorated by the 1997 Million Women March in Philadelphia that rapper Lauryn Hill referenced a year later in her critically acclaimed and commercially successful studio album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, the emergence of a generation of young women calling themselves hip-hop feminists appear to signal something new and exciting in contemporary black feminism (Durham, Cooper, and Morris, 721). This album has inspired many female hip-hop artists today to use their talent and voice to inspire …show more content…

These artists have been inspired by the female hip-hop legends that include Missy Elliot, Queen Latifah, and Lauryn Hill. In an interview at The Breakfast Club at the Power 105 station in New York, artist Tink said, “If there's anybody I would want to be compared to, it would be Lauryn Hill," she said. "I think it comes up a lot of times because I sing and I rap and I have a message within my music and I'm not here to be a gimmick.” These messages consist of empowering and inspiring not only black women, but women in general. All of these new artists want to inform about equality for

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