I had a struggle session with some comrades the other day who said Hip Hop was bad because it degrades women and teaches guys how to be misogynistic. I felt that the perspective paints the genre as one thing and is an unfair generalization despite some aspects of the music being sexist in nature. I get both sides of the argument and wanted to see what you all thought.
That literally applies to rock, pop, country, almost any genre I can think of. Almost any rock star from the 60s/70s has a horrendous history of treating women disgustingly, cancel your faves y’all. I’m not into opera but I bet there’s misogynist operas lol. The difference is hip hop is majority black musicians, so people do a nice racism and call it thuggish, homophobic, sexist, whatever. For every hip hop song like that there’s another about serious issues, there’s loads of revolutionary and heartfelt hip hop. Tarring the whole genre with that brush is racist as fuck imo.
