1. “Stay-up! (Viagra)” by 88 Keys
The video features two older African-American men (actually Kanye West and 88-Keys or Charles Misodi Njapa dressed up and in make-up to seem older like 80) taking two young white female’s out in Hollywood. They are picked up at their home visibly having a hard time getting into their limo where they then drive around Hollywood visiting adult toy stores, convenient stores and eventually end up at a hotel store where the girls get into bikini’s to dance for the men. At one point one of the males fakes a heart-attack or medical problem while in a story sending fear into his friends when he then gets up laughing. At one store they also run into Pete Wentz, lead singer for Fall-Out Boy who calls them the girls grandpa’s who then correct him that they are the girls dates. The men take pills (clearly viagra) in order to stay up like not sleep but also to stay up sexually! They then fall asleep before anything happens and the girls then find a polaroid featuring the two men in their younger days. ( HYPERLINK "http://www.mtv.com/videos/88-keys/354190/stay-up-viagra.jhtml#id=1518072" http://www.mtv.com/videos/88-keys/354190/stay-up-viagra.jhtml#id=1518072)

2. “Can’t Live w/o The Money” by Boobe
This video features the artist in multiple scenes. The first being the artist sitting on the ground beside a car while a video-girl dances around him and sometimes he waves or counts a stack of money. Another scene features him driving in the car with a clearly fake moving background with a white man wearing a curly haired wig, I believe representing a politician considering the song is about more money brings more problems. Another scene features him with the car but this time their are about 15 girls in total along with the politician figure. Another scene features another artist who is featured on the song in a room sitting on a black leather chair with a girl in a black room. He is also featured in a white room sitting on a red couch and in the room with Boobe and all the video-girls. (http://www.mtv.com/videos/boobe/369367/cant-live-wo-the-money.jhtml)

3. “Gettin’ Money All Day” by Evenodds
This video begins with the artist at 9:09 am saying hello to friends and then getting into a car where it then flashes to scenes of him in a black room talking to the camera. It then follows him through his day through a convenient store where he picks up a gucci bag, then to the barber shop. All the while it flashes back and forth to other members of the group rapping their part to the camera (alone). The video then pauses and flashes back to 33 minutes prior to the beginning where he phones a friend in the barber shop and they talk about Obama winning. He then gets in his bmw with the gucci bag. The video then moves forward to later that evening where he heads into a club to perform. After the performance the group is counting their earnings in a back room while a african-american male from earlier in the day busts the door down and cocks a gun while one man yells “everybody get done on the floor” and as everybody moves towards the floor the video ends. (http://www.mtv.com/videos/evenodds/372946/gettin-money-all-day.jhtml)

4. “D.Boy” by Pastor Troy
The video opens with two women African-American females who get out of a car at a house dressed in blue jeans and white tank tops who then enter the house. The video then cuts to the artist with a black-screen behind him featuring words that are unclear in white writing and the girls who now are sporting a orange and red bandana across their nose and mouth moving back and forth around him, clearly shot and overlaid behind the artist. It then cuts back to inside the house where another artist is at a table and they all begin counting money together. The video then cuts again to the same other screen but now featuring the new artist and bank vault behind him. The girls then go to the bathroom where they are wearing towels and getting ready, applying lotion etc. The video then cuts back to another screen where one girl is sitting in a chair counting money. The video then cuts back to the story where they all get into a car and get pulled over by a white cop who tries to place the second artist under arrest but once the girls get out of the car he lets the man go. He then gets out of the car holding and showing off a wrestling champion belt. They then arrive at a club where the video ends with him counting a wad of cash. ( HYPERLINK "http://www.mtv.com/videos/pastor-troy/369752/dboy.jhtml" http://www.mtv.com/videos/pastor-troy/369752/dboy.jhtml).

5. “Mujeres in the Club” by Wisin y Yandel
The video opens with two men walking on a roof-top, one man (50 cent) running through a alley who then jumps into the back of a van after being chased and one girl sitting in a chair in a room. Then their are two girls walking on a street while all three men rap on a roof top and in a alley while the girl is approached by some men where she then socks one man in the family jewels. 50 cent is then featured in a elevator with two woman rapping in english while everything else is in spanish. 50 then gets out of the elevator with the women into a room to meet with some other men while a group of men on the outside throw in a smoke bomb to clearly clear out the room. Chaos erupts while a group enters the room wearing gas masks and the one woman enters last. The woman and her team then enter a different room featuring two leather chairs where she is clearly disturbed. All the while the video flashes back and forth to the men rapping on the roof and in the alley. ( HYPERLINK "http://videos.onsmash.com/v/EMUaXP6nv2LDwbyR" http://videos.onsmash.com/v/EMUaXP6nv2LDwbyR)


Radio Stations:

103.5 Power in Oklahoma City, OK
O’City Source: “Your Hip-Hop Connection” in Oklahoma City, a clothing a retail establishment
Cocina De Mino
OKC Thunder
BOK
car dealerships
nestle nesquik
geico

KJ 103 (102.7) in Oklahoma City, OK
blockbuster
Curves fitness center
car dealerships
paradise city
warnings about playing on oil-well sites
groovy’s bar in okc, ok

Other Hip-Hop Influences
Car rims
the words ghetto, fo-shizzle, crunk (Let’s get crunk!), pimp
graffiti
rapping
break dancing
beat-boxing

Music My Parents Listened too:

Dad
My dad listened to rock, which is now referred to as, classic rock like the Rolling Stones, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, and T-Rex. He really only listens to classic rock but also likes some blues now-a-days like B.B. King, Buddy Guy, and Johnny Lang
Mom
My mom really likes a lot but mainly listens to adult contemporary like Michael Bolton, Michael McDonald, and Sixpence none the richer. She also likes some rock/pop (due to her children) like Dave Matthews Band, Ray LaMontagne and Coldplay. But she also likes classic rock like the Rolling Stones, the Steve Miller Band and Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.

Reflection
Although I honestly do not listen to rap/hip-hop music that much, I am not surprised by the content of the videos. I'm going to generalize but most all hip-hop or rap music video's portray women as objects mainly sex objects and like most all other forms of media it should be changed. It really bothers me that those kinds of video's get away it. If Enrique Iglesias does a video where he makes out with his now wife, Anna Kournikova, he gets reamed for the explicit content but any artist in the rap/hip-hop community who makes a video even worse than that receive no scorn. I think they get by with it because everyone writes it off as their culture and the norm when objectifying women is objectifying women, plain and simple. I think that artists who sing/rap about their life experiences, even if they are terrible things these people have been through are very honorable but just because they may have grown up with nothing and have struggled their whole life does not give them the right to portray women this way. I'm not sticking up for other types of music but I feel like rock or even pop video's usually hit every range on the spectum but most all rap/hip-hop video's I have seen are all the same storyline and they most all include women who are skimpily dressed and dance/act/perform in a very sexual manner. I have nothing against rap but I feel I do need to explain that when I say I don't listen to rap I mean I don't really listen to the mainstream rap/hip-hop. I do like old stuff more gansta rap like Notorious, Tupac, old Puffy, Outkast, Warren G. & Nate Dogg, Jay-Z and actually really like Kanye West. I like the beats and the lyrics of the older rap/hip-hop because like the article my group had to present to the class, I feel it is more real as opposed to today's stuff. I feel like today's stuff is mass-produced, easily found, easily copied and too abundant. I also feel like it is not consistant enough. Maybe its because I do not really follow that community or genre of music enough but I feel as if their is constantly a new top player, each week or month is someone new. However with that said I am a 100% music lover and all things aside I respect any true (no milli vanilli) musician for what they do.