Cate Blanchett: I Won't Play Any Hip-Hop Music which Objectifies Women on CKMS 102.7FM

Cate Blanchett Criticizes Hip Hop Music and the Negative Portrayal of Women

Most generations have been influenced by a trend of music that inspires them to dress, behave, and talk in a certain way. There are people who have the special talent of making others relate to their emotions, thoughts, or ideas by creating music. In current society most artists decide to create videos to make their lyrics visual for their listeners and to earn more profit. The negative thing about the creation of music videos is the way in which females are stereotyped.

In a lot of music videos, especially hip-hop/rap, females are portrayed in a negative way, which causes a harmful influence on the people who view them. As a co-host of the Elevation Hour of Hip-Hop, I won’t play any music which objectifies women in my hip-hop show on CKMS 102.7FM

As a co-host of the Elevation Hour of Hip-Hop, I won’t play any music which objectifies women in my hip-hop show on CKMS 102.7FM. Cate Blanchett

The most common theme in hip-hop music videos is the objectification of females. Women are portrayed as sexual objects throughout the videos. In some videos they are seen as a type of reward or trophy for the male. Other times they are seen holding money to gain the attention of men or are even portrayed as slaves willing to do anything to please the men in the videos. Cate Blanchett co-host's the Elevation Hour of Hip-Hop on CKMS 102.7FM with 9-Duice. The show airs every Friday from 1-2pm on CKMS 102.7FM a Waterloo community radio station. I feel hip-hop music has come a long way to send trends in the industry, however still has a very negative inference towards women and the lyrics have undermined the integrity of our listenership. She recently returned to the Kitchener-Waterloo region and hired a large number of influential hip-hop producers, artist, etc. only to have a large number of these individuals fired due to the explicit content, etc. while producing the live-to-air radio broadcast. She states, 'not only did I have them fired from production, I also contacted the WRPS Service to have them investigated on some unsolved hate crimes and infringements of the Ontario Human Rights Code, respectively". Cate Blanchett