Degrading Women In Music

This morning I woke up, got dressed, and went to work just like every working person in the world.  My window froze over and I buy a few CD's every week for my morning rides to work and for some reason I decided to buy this old Twista album "Adrenaline Rush."  Many consider this album a classic, but I think the album is pure garbage, just the words that comes out of his mouth is pure gibberish.  This is the main reason I cant listen to a lot of rap music, because of how much it degrades women.

I havent lived long in this world, I can tell you that I love my mother, grandmother, my aunts, my niece, my sister, I have female friends moreso than I have male friends, I loved women I dated, I cannot see myself disrespecting and degrading women the way that they have been degraded in music.  Some can point the finger, then say its womens fault but the problem is society.  There is a paradigm shift of the content in music that is released.  Think about it Smokey Robinson, Bill Withers, Jackie Wilson, Levi Stubbs, Bobby Womack etc all made music respecting women, and how it was important to respect the woman that you love to keep her around and things of that nature.  These days there are so many artist that just degrade women, and the sad part is that there are people in society who think its okay.  The problem with music now is that love is no longer in music.  Now the main factor in music is not love its sex appeal, what do teenagers who have no idea what love is have this phantomistic ideology that love is purely based on whoever they wake up with the next day. 

After listening to this album I am a bit disgusted with myself for buying that album.  Not because it was such a bad album, but because the women that Twista and the myriad of rappers who were on the album not one time said woman, nor did they have any respect for any woman.  The women were referred to as bitches and hoes.  Me personally I do not refer to women as bitches and hoes no matter how angry I may get.  I know more than likely Twista did not have anything to rap about at the time and thinking about it closely a majority of Twista's songs are about sex.  I am glad that I have the father that I have who taught me to be much better than that.  The bitch that Twista is referring to is someones daughter, and that is as literal as it gets.  I could never say the things that he says, and come back home to my mother and be proud of myself, nor is there pride getting rich and making money off degrading women.  Love needs to be brought back to music someday, I hope it is.