Overview and analysis of Early Femal MC's

This section covers everything about female artist. It shows how males dominate the hip-hop artistry and how women have standards based on it. It talks about women and how they should express their feminine personality. This section also describes how women like Salt n Pepa have broke through some of the barriers by expressing their sexuality and suceeded. Ogbar describes how women have a sterotype based on the jezebel. Ogbar also relates some of the female artistry to slavery days. Further it goes on to describe how women stood up to men in their lyrics by downing the men, then moving on to women who portray the image of gold diggers, lascivious vixens,and violent mob girls. In my analysis it shows how women have came face to face with the men in competition and changed their image to become successful. It also describes how some women go more towards the jezebel characteristics and some like Queen Latifa go more towards complementing theirselves and their race. Ogbar argues in this section that over time female artist have created a negative image for themselves by dressing in a provocative manner, and calling themselves bitches, hoes and sluts. He provides several examples of these types as artist such as lil kim. Ogbar also tries to make the point that you don't have to be a part of this image to do well in the industry. For example people like Queen Latifa and Lauryn Hill have won seceral awards and sold platinum albums without falling into this image.
4.Accolades-a brace or a line used in music to join two or more staffs carrying simultaneous parts
Jezebel-an offensive term for a woman regarded as sexually immoral or manipulative (insult) Lascivious-showing a desire for, or unseemly interest in, sex ; provoking lustBraggadocious-empty boasting, arrogant pretension, cockiness
Misogynistic-a hatred of women, as a sexually defined group Coterminous-next to and sharing a common boundary with something
Hegemony-control or dominating influence by one person or group, especially by one political group over society or one nation over others
Elitism-the belief that some people or things are inherently superior to others and deserve preeminence, preferential treatment, or higher rewards because of their superiority Subjugation-the act or process of bringing somebody, especially a people or nation, under the control of another, e.g. by military conquest
Touted-to praise or recommend somebody or something enthusiastically (usually passive) Anomalous-deviating from the norm or from what people expect.
Hip-hop and blackness (17-27)2. Ogbar makes the argument in this section that black artists are more credible in hip-hop and rap. He is not completely against white artists because he does make the point that they can write about drugs, prisons, gangs, and poverty as well, however, they are not credible in the sense of racism, prejudice, and discrimination.3.Ogbar is arguing that being black doesn’t mean you are stupid or a comedic image like a clown-like figure. He is saying that being black isn’t a crime, and that people should be true to their culture and not give into being something they’re not. He mentions rap artist Ice Cube, who takes a stand against all the years of being put down for being black. Ice Cube talks about the humiliation of the black people by use of the minstrel in Public Enemy’s “Burn Hollywood Burn”. Cube raps “But some things I’ll never forget… so step and fetch this shit. For all the years we looked like clowns, the joke is over. Smell the smoke from all around.” He is here challenging racism, he is showing that he is black, he is intelligent and he is proud. Ice Cube’s 1991 hit “True to the Game” hits hard on those artists who have given into the “white culture”. He mentions how they date white people, live with white people, and tolerate racist offenses. No one should try to be something they are not, they should stick to what they are and be proud of it. 4. Pernicious-causing great harm, destruction, or deathCipher-a written code in which the letters of a text are replaced with others according to a systemSalient-particularly noticeable, striking, or relevantSymposium-a formal meeting held for the discussion of a subject, during which individual speakers may make presentationsCurtailed-to reduce the length or duration of somethingPanacea-a supposed cure for all diseases or problemsVirulently-extremely poisonous, infectious, or damaging to organismsIndolent-lethargic and not showing any interest or making any effortConcomitantly-happening or existing along with or at the same time as something else (formal)Ostensibly-presented as being true, or appearing to be true, but usually hiding a different motive or meaningEsoteric-intended for or understood by only an initiated fewPretentiousness-acting as though more important or special than is warranted, or appearing to have an unrealistically high self-imageChallenging the Neo-minstrel (27-34)2. In Ogbar’s argument of the Neo-minstrel section still makes fun of African Americans but in a modern day type of way. In some cases Ogbar presents African Americans almost make fun of it as well, but at the same time they comment on how white dressing in costume and make up to look black made them look like "clowns"3. The Minstrel was a show that depicted African Americans as comedic, dumb, and primitive. Ogbar is arguing that this still exists today, just in a modernized form. A Spike Lee movie Bamboozled is mentioned. In this movie, a stiff and nerdy black man is assigned to make a T.V. show considered “racially real”. The show actually ends up being called “The New Millennium Minstrel Show”. It depicts black men sitting drinking 40.oz beers and playing with guns. This is a modern racist view of the typical black male. Flavor Flav is also mentioned here, in regards to his reality show “Flavor of Love”. In the show Flav is “a garishly dressed character whose appetite for fame is fed by a house full of women and buckets of fried chicken.” This show is depicting the black race as a funny, dumb culture. It is looked at by some as a way for white people to watch as the black culture is humiliated4. Myopic-lack of foresight or long-term planningAficionado-somebody who is enthusiastic and knowledgeable about somethingcoon-a highly offensive term for a black personColloquial-appropriate to, used in, or characteristic of spoken language or of writing that is used to create the effect of conversationVituperative-an outburst of violently abusive or harshly critical languageBuffoonish-somebody behaving in a silly wayMonolith-a tall block of solid stone standing by itself, whether a natural rock feature or a stone column shaped and erected by somebody, e.g. as a monument