Video Vixens: Images in Hip Hop Videos

( Hip Hop vs. America )

When placing a black video vixen in a music video, she seems to have the right moves and a rear bigger than what we think her aspirations are. In this video, a panel of rappers, professors, and a former video vixen discuss the portrayal of black women in music videos. They discuss the influence of these types of portrayal on young women. They watch what's on television and aspire to become video models and nothing else. They forget their goals in life because what seems cool is on television and far from reality.

Author Akiba Solomon made a connection between women in hip hop and slavery. She says that women were reduced to work and reproduce and now these black women are being used for their sexuality instead. Since sex sells, pornography seems to have become mainstream by using these music videos as a medium. It seems like the only purpose black women have in the media is to be in music videos shaking their asses unlike white women, who are on every channel you turn to. Women in these videos are dehumanized because they do not do anything but dance and be sexually needy. Women in videos often forget that they have the right to decide, the right to say no to something they do not want partake in.