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- Title
F**k B*tches Raw on the Kitchen Floor: A Feminist Examination of Condom Messages in Hip Hop and Rap Music, 1991–2017.
- Authors
Griffin, Marybec; Fournet, Adele
- Abstract
Since 1991, the popularity of hip hop and rap music in the United States has expanded beyond traditional consumers of the genre. As such, this genre of music has the ability to shape cultural and sexual norms across racial, ethnic, gender, and geographic boundaries. The purpose of this study was to examine condom use messaging in hip hop and rap music. We conducted a lyric analysis of all tracks in the top ten albums between 1991 and 2017, as listed on the Billboard US Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums Year End Charts. Overall, we analyzed 3732 songs. In our sample, 1171 songs contained sexually explicit messages and 98 songs had mentions of condom use. Sexually explicit messages were most common between the years of 1995 and 2000, and have been slowly increasing in rap music since 2010. By focusing on safe-sex messaging in lyrical content, we add to both: (1) the growing feminist critique of gender inequality and misogyny in the music industry from a public health standpoint, and (2) the analysis of the role of popular culture in understanding youth sexual attitudes and behaviors.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MISOGYNY; MUSICAL form; YOUTHS' attitudes; MUSIC industry; RHYTHM &; blues music; GEOGRAPHIC boundaries; ATTITUDES toward sex; CONDOM use
- Publication
Sexuality & Culture, 2020, Vol 24, Issue 1, p291
- ISSN
1095-5143
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12119-019-09638-y