I pulled this discussion from a quote made by one of the interviewees, Jadakiss, in the video clips we watched in class. He said, "At the end of the day, it's just entertainment". "It" is hip-hop and what "it" represents.
I called this discussion entertainment vs symbolism because while Jadakiss thinks of hip-hop solely as entertainment, we all gotta know that it involves so much symbolism that we need to learn how to control the message.
For example, when it comes to hip-hop and women it would be easy for someone from the outside looking in to say of course the rappers would use women in skimpy bathing suits and things of the like because it gets attention and attention equals money, but while those women grace the screens like so, it is the way that they are depicted that makes the difference between entertainment and what they are symbolizing, which in most cases is sex and a cheap thrill, all the while demeaning women.
This is the problem and currently there doesn't seem to be many who are trying to fix it. Of course, something that drastic would take a lot of fixing to make a change, but the hardest part is, where do we start?
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I liked the way you worded that argument. To a lot of those who are making money from hip hop, it is just their job and they are simply producing entertainment for people. But I do believe that they see the symbolism these music videos are representing if not only for the fact that this issue is so talked about by everyone these days.
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