Hip Hop Videos

The way Hip-Hop videos mostly portray woman is very interesting and controversial, as they most of the time represent woman as an sexual object, this is mostly portrayed through the amount of small clothes they have on and also the close ups of their figure and luxurious lips. Most of the Hip-Hop genre is mostly focused on the representations of black men. Most of the time there is a huge stereotype to the rap artists mostly portraying them to be black men that are aggressive, violent, sophisticated, rich and very unemotional. 

Most of the conventions of Hip-Hop videos:

• Mostly linked through an iconography of money, mostly being thrown around to portray how much wealth they have to chuck around money, this also shown through luxurious cars to big ridiculous diamond chains and loads of alcohol and drugs.
• Many rappers are shown to be very cocky and powerful during their videos, this is mostly shown through their body language mostly being positioned to be excited but also powerful from the clothes they wear, mostly wearing the best designer clothes etc.. but also from the camera shots mostly being shot from a low angle so that they look so big and powerful trying to connote to audiences the amount of power they have from being a rapper.
• Most of the time their are scenes of violence mostly being linked to their lyrics and also violent video narratives mostly making their stereotypes sound right and the violence is shown through the hip-hop mise en scene as they use props such as guns and prostitutes portraying a very bad idea to the media and the audiences.