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Machismo in Hip Hop culture

KEYBOARD GUEST: Javier Regueiro López

In my work I analyze what is the role played by women in hip hop culture a culture in which female participation is minimal in relation to man and a culture that is considered somewhat sexist.

Before starting to analyze the participation of women in hip hop culture at the present time there to talk about the origin of this culture can be one of the reasons for this low representation of women as they is a culture that emerged in the U.S. and in the poorest neighborhoods in some cities between an atmosphere of violence and always very connected to life on the street. These facets of which I have spoken: the street life and violence are always associated with the lifestyle of man and the woman who traditionally arises when this culture is still considered that their place is at home, not in the street. This culture is also characterized by competition, a feature that at that moment that raises the hip hop, not associated with the female character but is rather characteristic of man. So various artists compete through music to portray themselves as the most inventive, challenging and insulting reaching into his songs. On many occasions, the rivalry has even transcended beyond music and has led to street clashes in the deaths.

All this may is the foundation from the beginning that the woman had a minimal presence in the hip hop scene and explain the sexism that off the lyrics of the songs. However, over the years have been coming female artists and also within the public has increased in many women's track, which, however, has not prevented further maintained through songs a rather 'macho' role of women in society.

the above, the hip hop comes to Spain in the eighties and from the first time the presence of women in this culture is marginal and, yet, despite a culture that over the years is evolving enormously and spread throughout the nineties, mainly among young people in the cities, women still have a minimal presence. Maybe after the new century started to appear female hip hop artists in the music scene to bring a new point of view and will assert the role of women in this culture as male.

Even with all, although it appears that women now begin to enter more in this culture is still overwhelmingly male and in the lyrics of the songs we can keep watching this machismo we will discuss later.

Of the various manifestations in which it operates this culture I will focus on the musical, perhaps the main manifestation of the same and where we are best able to analyze this sexism.

must also say that within the hip hop can be framed a lot of musical styles (rap, reggae, reggeton, funk, etc..) And not all the way to treat the female figure or involved is the same. Therefore I will differentiate the rap style that is more representative of this culture, and Reggaeton, a style that has recently appeared in the English scene and has quickly achieved a great success.

Women

rap

As I said in introducing today the presence of women in rap has increased dramatically in recent years, both among artists and among the public. Thus we find female artists who enjoy great success as Arianna Puello, La Mala Rodriguez, etc. and have a large number of both male and female followers. These artists, among others, seeking to escape the sexism in his lyrics and defending the role of women, both within the hip hop and in life in general. Sometimes even we can see in some of his lyrics and take a position that could be described as "feminist" thus equating the modus operandi of male artists and claiming the role of women, both within the hip hop culture and society, and criticizing the sexism of other hip hop artists.

must also say that have recently emerged female hip hop festival with the intention of fighting against sexism in this culture and given the opportunity to act on female artists who do not enjoy the same follow-up than men even when music is of higher quality.

However, I must say that the most representative artists of the rap scene in our country clearly remains men and, except for some isolated case of an artist in which difficult, in general, within the songs of most artists, it's easy to find sexist manifestations mostly focused on the treatment of women as sexual objects that we observe in songs Violadores del verso tote king and that maybe it group and artist respectively, the most representative and successful both critically and sales at the scene of our country. As an example we can cite very clearly songs where women are treated as a mere sexual object as "Come" Tote king or "want" Violadores del verso. You can say that, in general, most of his music is that consideration of women as sexual objects of desire above any other facet that women can exercise.

Women reggaeton

Reggaeton is a musical style that can be framed within hip hop, which has recently burst onto the music scene of our country reached immediately a great success among the young in general, even beyond fans of hip hop culture, and settling as a typical music of the local nightlife.

is a type of music in examples of sexism left over songs where women are treated as mere sex objects and in many cases men are encouraged to treat women badly, not to mention the music videos that make many of the singers in this genre where scantily clad women abound flattering to her charms to the musician, or the "perreo" a kind of dance that is associated with this music with a highly erotic and sexual.

The success that has the reggaeton in the nightlife I find worthy of analysis because it is a type of music which a priori is far from what traditionally had success in these places, however, it is now one of the styles greater presence in places where young people go. Perhaps the fact that the lyrics of this music promote sex, alcohol and dancing which is perfectly suited to that environment. Or maybe what happens is that this is music made to sound in that environment, an environment in my view very frivolous and sexist where the roles of men and women are stereotyped and where sex appeal is the dominant element. This may lead to think that maybe this is what causes that machismo is used in the lyrics and the songs of reggaeton because the environment for to made is sexism, knowing well in advance that in such premises will obtain such .

In conclusion I believe that hip hop is still a very patriarchal culture, however, is generally a male dominated culture does not mean that all artists and fans they are, not all songs. What also happens is that, traditionally, if he has been a macho culture and the artists that appear on the scene, of course, taken as a benchmark to begin developing their lyrics and music artists before causing many cases, in addition to assimilate the music, it will echo that sexism.

However, as I said earlier, women are increasingly taking a stake more and more prevalent in this culture and trying to lay claim to equal treatment of men and denounce the sexism. Apart from that you can also find many male artists aware of avoiding that sexism to try to clean the macho image of hip hop.

However, a different case is the reggaeton music in which women are used as sex objects in most songs and built by default for a macho environment. And it looks like a style that can not be construed otherwise than treating women as sex objects.

also curious how successful they are the female reggaeton in the audience because, unlike rap, which has a predominantly male audience, in the case of reggaeton, even in the case of a clearly sexist and music which is usually treated women as sexual objects, has a large following among the female audience. So, in my view, in many cases the very basis of the existence of that machismo in this music as in other cultural manifestations of any kind can be found, to some extent in certain sectors of society remain less macho or sexist expressions assume no discomfort, and are willing to buy products with sexist content as if the consumer does not agree to them probably would not occur discs with such content. This seems fundamental to me and is something against which we should conscientiously to change.