I am in the radio industry (or at least trying) and I love all kinds of music. I also learned a long time ago to never let a man make me think negatively of myself. I take the good with the bad. Yes there are those members of the hip hop community that are constantly degrading women, but look at Lauren Hill. She is admired by everyone in the community, has more critical and commercial success than many of those men. I think that is a real testament to the hip hop community. You also have artist like R Kelly and such that write wonderful music and lyrics and although some of it is about abusive relationships, he does it to shed light on the subject, not praise it. You have to pick and chose. Yes I like Jay Z but I don't watch his videos of women bouncing their breasts around in order to make themselves appealing and having sex with him. Who cares about that? There are other musical generations that have had this problem, look at rock and how hard it is for women to get into that, but you have Gwen Stefani up there belting out hard core lyrics that are heartfelt and she is kicka$$!!!!! Just remember not to let negative comments made by artist feed your idea of yourself and of what those men view women as... meat.
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