Black women like Sylvia Robinson, Queen Latifah, Missy Elliot and others helped mold hip-hop into the musical juggernaut it is today. Unfortunately, music videos now reduce most black women to eye candy, and lyrics depict them as objects for pleasure. And like Lauryn Hill, the whole world sings along with tracks that reduce black women to sex objects in a culture that black women birthed. In hip-hop, women who have repeatedly swallowed poison in the name of “family” are slowly dying, in silence. What if we showed how much we value black women by refusing to support artists who create music that normalizes abuse?

Source: Huffington Post January 28, 2018 12:56 UTC