Hip- Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes

The objectifying of women, the portraying of black men in a negative light, the music displays a negative viewpoint on the black community as a whole. The biggest controversy of Hip-Hop will it ever end? Let’s take a look at black men in Hip-Hop and in general. Negative views and images of black men on TV or through Hip-Hop music are brainwashing young black men into being, hard, violent, insensitive, and to treat women as an object. Hip-Hop also portrays a sense of homoerotism and misogyny in music video and rap lyrics. Looking at Hip-Hop from a women point of view is a much distorted view. We love Hip-Hop it is as much our culture as it is for black men, but the more and more I listen the more and more I become appalled. Sitting down listening to a regular rap album; for respectable black women; she becomes uncomfortable, disgusted and conflicted with her culture and the music that she loves. What she is hearing is a black man her “brother” referring to her as all kinds of “Bitches and Whores”, basically he is implying that a black women in less for sex isn’t worth anything. As a result 61% of rape victims are under 18. The rapper also implies that his “Boy’s” come first before any thing. Rappers today impose that women should be objectified as sex toys, but on the other hand signify brotherly love against women, homosexuals, punks; men that show sensitivity. Rappers idolize money, womanizing, and being hard. Listening to rap albums rappers implies homoerotism, and misogyny. Misogyny is the hatred of women moreover homoerotism is the portraying of homosexual desire, Rappers portray both in music lyrics. Television portrays black men as being a one trick pony. Young black men have no one to look up to on TV except rappers and professional athletes. These are professions that do not require academic degrees. Young black men grow up watching BET and are brainwashed into thinking they don’t need a higher education and idolize making money the easy way, as rappers imply hustling. Hustling means getting money any way a person can include stealing, sealing drugs, or through violence. BET is known to be the cancer of black men. This network airs music video that does involve rappers throwing money at the camera, a dozen half-naked women shaking the backsides against the rapper, and violence. Rap music implies hyper masculinity, men being manly and hard. Meaning they show men with their shirts off implying that they are dangerous. Jail, crime, gangs and other negative images are reflected in Hip-Hop music. Do to this young black men are 14 times more likely to become a victim of gun violence. BET hardly ever shows high educated professional black men; instead show black men as being non professional, uneducated, violent, hard, and disrespectful to women. Will the controversy ever end? My feelings for this subject hunt me everyday. I feel very conflicted with my culture, and overwhelmingly uncomfortable with the view of black men, and how the see black women. Sometimes it is hard to believe that black men see us that way, when I hear the filthy lyrics I ask myself “Who are they talking about are these horrible women really out there?” Women who allow men to call them out of their names, and treat them like objects. Rappers make it seem as if they never meet a respectable woman in their entire lives. Of course it can be stopped but it will take the entire black community to do so with it be in the next 10 years? No, but we will have to fight because we are talking about the health of our culture, it has to change.

My First Class Flight

Whats My name

CYNDRIA ABERNATHY- In this motion graphic design I tried to imagine what my name means and what it looks like in motion when adding that meaning. I chose this color because well its my favorite color. One thing I could not decide on was the font I have many attributes, if you notice; like a person wearing different hats and two different moments, they person may look different but its still the same person.

Sweet Countdown

Media Countdown my first project in Motion Graphics. I learned a lot and how much I love mixing blues and purples. Worked with Adobe After Effects software. The countdown started off really slow now I look back, I should of adjusted the the time; but i didn't know how to do that than, lol its a process.

I used an old movie background that was back and grey to give it that nostalgia fell. I'm not a dark person and when, I went with my personality; free and intuitive, also I chose to overlay the back ground in the purple taffy color to liven it up and make it young again. It also reminds me on candy. I tried to imagine the movie that was about to start after the countdown and the first thing that came to mind were movies like Kill Bill, Death Proof; movies where women whooped ass.

Southern U (HBCU) Murders happened on/ off Campus

Baton Rouge- over the past week two students at Southern University were killed, and only credits away from receiving there degrees.

Fredinand "Fred" Dorsey Jr., 24 Was a senior at Sounther when he was gun down at the University's upper classmen apartments known as the Palidades.Students and facalty say that the shooting arose from an argument that started on campus, than later moved to the campus apartments.

An older student Shena Barnet better known as Sheen Marie,26 was found at her her home beaten too death and burn.
Officers recived a call about a house in flame, later to find much more; a murder homicide and a fire set to cover it up.

After further investigating the murder of Shena Barnet,Timothy Wahington was arrested when detectives found his DNA on the bat at the scene of the crime.
Both students from New Orleans Fred, a Criminal Justice major and Sheena, Public Relations major where popular stdents at Southern, and were involved with student activities. It is sad that this happend to them. The questions has to be ask when will students attend Southern University and graduate without attending a funeral of a fellow classmate in the mean time?

Rihanna on Blast

"Its Okay Jenifer Hudson is a beautiful woman, and she has a better voice." Ouch!

This was a quote taking from Domald Trump, after siger Rihanna was offered $500,000 to perform at one of his evebst. The big headed singer took the offer but didn't have enough guts to say no thank you; instead lies and says that she's sick. She a day later ends performs at the All Star game.

Trump went on to say that Rhyianna is disrepectful and un perfessional. He's right you don't have to lie to kick it.

Cyndi

Cyndria Abernathy the adventurer, the scholar and the philanthropist. Ha ha lol just kidding I see my self as this superb person in my own world. I like to think that I am the ish, but really im just a normal down the earth God-fearing girl who grew up close to the beach, who cant stop wondering whats else is out there, until i really get there and see that it will never be as great as California.

I was born on in Long Beach, CA; on a day that a gambler couldn't bet on, Leap year (feb 29th) 1988; yes I'm only 5 years old. People alway ask Wow? what made you come all the way out here? This is the stupidest question to ask anyone for California, because we are free spirited and travel everywhere for no reason. Truth be told this is my second out of state University my first school was an HBCU in Baton Rouge,LA (Southern University) portrayed in the movie Dumline. The black experience was great but too black. Its funny because at SU I was PR for the California West Cost Association and we made shirts that said "Stop Asking Us Why we Came Here", the club was huge.

How did I end up in New York? I ask myself that every morning I wake up. I miss home everyday; when its cold, when I want a taco, or a breath of fresh air from the sea, I miss it. Truth be told New York couldn't hold a candle to California with its clean/cheap grocery stores and year-around warm weather. I don't hate it here, Its just everywhere I turn theres something to piss me off about it, in every bet of a noun; persons, places and things. The only this I don't I love about New York is The Red Storm. St. John's has so much to offer spiritually and mentally and the gym at bad either.

Black Eyed Peas Halftime Show - 2011 SuperBowl

Wack Super Bowl Half-time

Whoopy-doo! Super bowl half time has been rated as the worse in years. The moment we were all waiting for was overlooked by getting snacks or texting.

Black Eye Peas got the worse ratings, not because they did a terrible job, but because they didn't do anything that they don't usually do; they performed the same songs, had the same futuristic theme. The only difference was that they tried to copy the Beijing Olympics with their large group choreography.

The real and only reason why the Black Eye Peas where chooser to preformed at the Super Bowl this year was because the producers of the show got caught up in playing it too safe.

Chosen because they were a multi cultural Hip-Hop group, and rated G. Other artist to be chosen would of gave hipsters a hi; post-50 superstars like Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, and the Who.

bye bye Regis

First Larry then Oprah...Now Regis

New York- Regis Philbin announces that he will be leaving day time TV. He is one of the three talk show giants to retire, within the last three years.

Oprah, Larry and Regis are broadcast journalist who shaped the media and major contributions in broadcast journalism. Who will be the next talk superstar to take the torch?

Philbin will be 80 this summer, Live with Regis and Kelly are scheduled to close around that time.