Blog 8

Hip-hop music and Hip-hop films facilitate the behavior that many critique it for in the public sphere instead of reflecting urban atrocities.  Hip-hop music and Hip-hop films have the tendency of singing about or filming about people that are violent, smoke weed, drink a lot, party a lot, people who do not go to school, are thieves, are not going anywhere in life, etc.  By portraying these images, this is where we get our stereotypes because since it is in the media, whether it be a song or film, we think that all people who like Hip-hop must be like that or do that.  These images is what the public wants to hear in Hip-hop music or wants to see in Hip-hop films because it is what sells, but we all must remember that just because it is what may be popular does not mean that it is how every person who likes Hip-hop is.  Yes, I am sure that these images are actually how some people's lives are, but there are also very successful people in the world, who are not violent, do not smoke week and went to school, that really enjoy Hip-hop music and/or Hip-hop films.  The public/media creates these stereotypes/images, and that is the case for this incident.