YouthAIDS created hip public service announcements for TV and radio using popular local and international celebrities and athletes and was participating in the MTV World AIDS Day ‘Staying Alive’ concerts,” she writes. “Along with other performers, YouthAIDS was supported by rap and hip-hop artists like Snoop Dogg and P. Diddy to spread the message…um, who? Those names were a red flag.
“As far as I’m concerned, most rap and hip-hop music — with it’s rape culture and insanely abusive lyrics and depictions of girls and women as ‘ho’s’ — is the contemporary soundtrack of misogyny.
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Ashley Judd tried to clean up her comments by stating:
“What I’m being accused of is condemning rap and hip-hop as a whole, and the whole community and when they say community, they mean the fans, and African-Americans, it’s become so generalized,” the actress continued. “My intention was to take a stand to say the elements that are misogynistic and treat girls and women in a hyper-sexualized way are inappropriate.”
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nate dogg said it best, hoes aint shit but tricks nigga
Well she’s right, no matter how many examples of hip-hop/rap artists you throw out who aren’t misogynistic, the VAST majority of them are. The end result is completely ignorant people like Derek ^ .
Sounds like someone let their “behind closed doors” opinion about a certain group of people leak out publicly and expose them…..again.
who cares, women love it they like when men them like shit they rather that then a nigga whos “to nice”.
i hate the way the hip hop culture is placed under the microscope all the time. its cool for rock artists to glorify cocaine, sex orgies, death & god knows what else. but wen a rapper(who is 10/10 black ) call a bitch a bitch or a ho a ho then they’re disrespectin women everywhere. not all women are bitches & hoes but lets be real women kno damn well that there are bitches & ho’s out there.
So an actress who’s gotten butt ass naked in multiple movies is complaining that hip hop treats girls and women in a hyper-sexualized way which is inappropriate? Why is it inappropriate for hip hop to hyper-sexualize women with words but okay for her to hyper-sexualize women with the action of getting naked on the big screen. As for the use of ho and other degrading words used to describe women; why is she not complaining about the primetime drama’s aimed at middle age white people which uses bitch and ho?
The music is mostly misogynistic and hyper-sexualizing women. But I think if you live your life that way, and go around calling women bitches and hoes then that’s wrong. It’s only entertainment, like Jay-z said “Scarface the movie did more for me than Scarface the rapper”. But it has gotten out of control when I hear 13 year old kids calling girls hoes all the time.
As a fan of rap/hip-hop… I’m offended by this and I rarely get offended by anything, lol..that’s like seeing a couple of black people standing on the corner selling crack then coming to the conclusion that..all black people are drug dealers.that’s like me thinking all white people are racist because of the kkk, what I’m trying to say is a few artist does not represent the whole culture, if she would have done her research and not open her mouth about nothing she knows about..she would know there’s different types of hip-hop..not just the kind they play on the radio and television, how can you just generalize the whole culture as that based off a few artist you’ve heard..that’s called being narrow minded.
Ignorant she was generalizing then tries to correct herself when bashed. If you gonna say something stick to it cause you obvious meant it that way. If you try to change what you said before it obvious because you knew you was wrong. Also nobody likes to blame the individual girls for what they do. Hip hop does not force these girls to shake they asses in the video. It cause they thirsty to get attention so they willing to it. Also not only that she has been in more then 1 nude scenes with movies. Yeah what kind of message is that sending to everybody.
It’s funny how hip hop was once a fad, now it’s the blame for everything that’s goes wrong in this country. The terrorist attacks, it’s all because of hip hop. Gas prices goes up, it’s because of hip hop. Someone gets raped, it’s because of hip hop. What happen to pornography being the cause of women being degraded. What happened to these movies being the cause of women getting raped and people getting killed. Stupid white people will always blame blacks and hispanics for the problems in this country. Although we dont have any power white people say, but we’re the cause of all the problems. Boy aint that some shit! I use to like that bitch too. Crackaz are not to be trusted. Everytime I think one of them is not racist, I’m proven wrong. GREEZY-WolfGangEmpire@yahoo.com
She like many who use hip hop as a scapegoat is a hypocrite and teeters on racist thinking. If I need to elaborate for you to get what I a saying than you are who I am talking about.
SMH America still on that bullshit in 2011.
When is this Country going To Grow Up?
Women have been degraded since the begininng of time. Look at the cities of Sodom and Gamorroa. Anal sex was named after a city! When Caligula ruled Rome there was alaways straight f***ing. And Women slaves could get f***ed on the spot if a Nobel Roman wanted to. In Japan women are treated less than men. You have to becareful if you a chick over there. When England ruled Scottland when scottish couples would get married a old English fart Duke would take the virginity of the wife. On the wedding day. I could go on. F***ing Has Been Going On Since The Begininng Of Time. Blame Man. Not Hip-Hop…….
Lol @ only hip hop sexualizing women. Hey Ashley what about shit going on in your industry? Lets see….
-Movies
-Reality tv shows
-commercials
-sitcoms
-porno.
Close Minded Much????
yeah shes right. too bad she has to clean up her statements to be politically correct.
SUCK A DICK ASHLEY JUDD. AND KEEP YOUR COMMENTS WITHIN YOUR CIRCLE
whatever bitch! how you like that?
Fuck ashley judd. Go make another movie with morgan freeman that nobody cares about.
Also who gives a fuck what ashley judd thinks. misogyny is present in all forms of music from country to rock to hip hop. Its not hip hops fault that women screw men over and when given an oppurtunity to get back at all the whores that a man has crossed in his life, he usually finds a way of making women the butt of the joke. Dont like misogyny, dont be a stupid whore. If your not then we aint talkin about you anyway. Women only get offended cus they know how true most of the shit is. And that goes triple for ashley judd.
Long Live Misogyny. Hopefully one day these bitches learn to just shut their mouths anddo what their good at. Also feel free to freak out and respond as it will be a huge waste of your time cus im not coming back to this page to read your indignant response.
and fuck bitches
Ice Cube said it best in his song Gangsta Rap but I am sick to death of our Genre being blamed for everything going wrong, Rock Music has people committing suicide having massive sex orgies and Heavy Metal has devil worshippers yet Hip-Hop is this evil genre which needs to be stopped. She is just a backward ass secret racist why don’t she just admit she hates black people and be done with it. People moan when Rappers don’t do something good and when they do something good we have people like judging a whole genre which she has no clue about.
It’s not our fault that conscious rap isn’t wanted by the majority.
Also how racist and misogynistic is country music for that matter, the music that gave her her priveleged life. Fuck off you spoiled hick. Boycott Ashley Judd if you have any respect for yourself as a hip hop fan or artist.
“yeah shes right. too bad she has to clean up her statements to be politically correct.” – ok
Exactly.
Be real, would you want your daughter or sister to fuck with a rapper? Didn’t think so.
HOES BEEN HERE WAAAAY BEFORE THERE WAS A HIP HOP… AND WOULD STILL BE HERE IF THERE WERE NEVER A HIP HOP.
I wouldn’t want my daughter or sister fucking any musician, period.
Also, it’s nice that Ashley Judd hasn’t listened to a hip hop track in 20 years. But why care about her opinion? She’s just some random actress who hasn’t done anything noteworthy in American culture in years. Her opinion means nothing.
ide bang ashley judd real talk……and ide holler THUG LIFE wwwwwwhen i came!
whered my comment go?lol
She is 100% correct, however, she is misguided in her statement and her retort. She should have implicated the entire Pop culture which includes television, MANY genres of music, movies, commercials, porn, heads of religion, etc.
why yall niggas always trying to change shit. she never said hiphop is to blame for degrading women or no one degraded women before hiphop, she said its basically the soundtrack. and she’s fuckin right. i dont know this for a fact but i would guess that hiphop has a higher percentage of violence and degradation than any other genre.
and so fuckin what, theres good and bad, and our good is actually some of the best ever, and the dumb rappers will get love from her kids and her grandkids cuz thats what this fucked up redneck racist country wants, violence and degradation. so although hiphop is the soundtrack to this fucked up country, thats just cuz we know wats real and aint afraid to say it. i cant wait for snoop to lyrically degrade ashley judd like only snoop dogg can
she’s right and she’s wrong…. I agree and disagree…
While she is right in one point she is wrong to attempt to condemn the entire field of Hip-Hop as a “Contemporary Soundtrack of Misogyny”… they are so many artists that use that avenue to make a track. What it is when u have someone that may not listen to Hip-Hop determine it all to be the same type of music from hearing one song.
exactly! youngnfocused ..that’s what I’m saying , you can’t penalize the whole genre based off a few artist..she’s narrow minded , that’s how a racist thinks.
I See the brainwashing is working on a lot of you… Listen to the songs that are popular on the radio that is listed to by kids on a daily basis.. its either consuming something(weed alcohol), masogany (sex/women), glorifying criminal activity (killing someone or selling drugs), or promoting merchandise to niggas (gucci loui ciroc etc)
Sure their are positive rap artists but you rarely hear them.. Kids and adults are fed this crap all day long but when someone point it out you are quick to defend HIP HOP.. give me a break
@ Storm90057, you obviously dont do your research…. How in the hell are you gonna blame “HIP HOP” for the degrading of women when this has been going on since the beginning of time? wait dont even bother to answer that…. Just something for you and whosoever else agrees with “ASHLEY JUDD” to think about…
@backlash u cant honestly say that its because of a few artist, it is the majority of the artist far more than just a few. sayin a few is like u in denial. i love hiphop and i gotta keep it real its way more than a few. it might be like 85percent. and if thats the case then u cant deny it. radio program this shit and executives give it the green light, so she is right thats the agenda, let them promote dumbshit and the few positive rappers or watever dont shine, and get cut in half every year.
u have 1 lupe for every 15 gucci manes. truth is truth.
again niggas act like victims and say she BLAMED hiphop. read it again she never said its our fault that exist in this country, she sayin our music reflects it the most.
if u asked me wat i think bout country music, i’ma say they some sad mf’ers that sing the blues always in some drama wit they old lady. is that racist??? cuz i only heard a handful of country music in my life its usually sad shit, so does that mean i’m racist??? dont think so, they probably got songs bout celebration,violence, drugs, sex, hoes, but i dont hear it, its probably like the underground of that genre, but the sad shit is the majority so i can say that and not be racist.
ashley judd is a country red neck chick, when she hear hiphop thats probably the only shit she hear, if she hear kanye or beyonce she wont think its hiphop but those niggers rappin wit they hands and talkin tough thats definetly hiphop and it is what it is
I guess every girl is just perfect in every way.
Never been a fucked up chick ever.
stick to selling drugs and killing men in your songs, if you mention a girl it better be positive.
Ridic, if people didn’t get excited hearing it they would throw it away.
shits entertainment
Well, she is telling the truth.
Entertainment period. Yeah its society fault,but you’re also @ fault as an entertainer. You are promoting & condoning it all.Humans are easily manipulated & deluded,follow what’s in. Jay-z throws on a button up & fitted, guys everywhere followed. That’s how influential entertainment can be. SO condoning and promoting is only perpetuating it,but none of that bother me cause Ive never had a guy to disrespect me in that manner,calling me a b*tch or slut cause I don’t put up with sh*t from guys, I don’t act like a bitch,hell I don’t even date man whores/sluts. Also, Not every guy degrades women, a lot do but not all.So why get upset if it doesn’t apply to you. A man who degrades every woman he sees is socially restarted anyway,and gets no quality p*ssy.
I dont like what she said especially targeting snoop and diddy but the more black folks play the race card and go “woe is us” everytime they get criticised the further back they’ll be left behind. How comes hispanics dont bitch all the time about all the hate they get?
@county of kings ..your right, but still that’s narrow minded..there’s all different types of hip-hop..Backpack,emotional,conscious,gangster etc ..so to single out those rappers that do rap about sluting females and calling them bitches and hoes etc ..and to say they represent the whole culture is ignorant..there’s a lot of positive hip-hop around ..but it’s the people who choose not to listen to it..she’s commenting on what she hears and not what she knows, yes mainstream music will always be like that..but don’t judge the genre as a whole just of mainstream, hip-hop/rap has came way to far just to be generalize as the “contemporary soundtrack of misogyny”
Really?…. some people are dumb as Hell. They didn’t even read what she said. Just started disagreeing and shooting off. Take a course on reading and comprehension. Shytheads
@county of kings ..your right, but still that’s narrow minded..there’s all different types of hip-hop..Backpack,emotional,conscious,gangster etc ..so to single out those rappers that do rap about sluting females and calling them bitches and hoes etc ..and to say they represent the whole culture is ignorant..there’s a lot of positive hip-hop around ..but it’s the people who choose not to listen to it..she’s commenting on what she hears and not what she knows, yes mainstream music will always be like that..but don’t judge the genre as a whole just off mainstream.
Only people who say the majority of hip hop is degrading women are the ones that only listen to mainstream. Mainstream does not represent Hip Hop as a WHOLE lets get that right. There are of positive tracks out there it’s just you ain’t looking or don’t care to look. There is music about about doing something positive Oh did yall forgot about christian rap I bet you did. Classifying Hip Hop as a rape culture was wrong of her. That was probably the most offenses part about it. You can tell she not even a Hip Hop fan so her opinion would be bias about the whole thing. Oh lets talk about the movies that constantly degrade women or tv shows. Why did you just have the feeling to point out Hip Hop all of the sudden.Oh wait did yall forget about porno where women choose that profession.
maybe if she stopped listening to Eminem she’d hear some fresh shit.
@ESDfashion…I thank you for reading my comment however I only stated what I hear on the radio everyday in heavy rotation . I never said hip hop as a whole. I even stated that their are some positive rappers. some of you guys are so brainwash you hear it right there in and the lyrics but you refuse to see the impact it has on society. don’t get me wrong I love hip hop I grew up on hip hop. but I’m not naive and I do see the impact it has on society. I would love to have a mature discussion about anything u disagree with but please read what I said and dont make stuff up
As a person of her stature she was politically out of turn for saying this, though she was correct. And I hate the fact that when someone comments on hip-hop culture the first defense is, well white people do it too with their rock music and whatnot. Really? That’s your defense? White people were lynching blacks back in the day and i’m sure you wouldn’t encourage us to follow suit. If what you’re doing is wrong, fix it. Period. Don’t say well other people do it too so I don’t have to fix my insanely ridiculous rhetoric about women and gangster life. And Nigel she didn’t try to clean up her act…she just said it properly. You saying she tried to clean up her act is implying she was wrong in the first place. She was not.
Someone just tell this b*tch to get back in the kitchen and stop running her mouth.