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Gender in my playlist

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  I have always thought that music reflects culture. That is the reason that music is always changing because as cultures combine, split, and are born the music representing those people will always be pushed to the forefront in their respective cultures. I say that to say important ideals, opinions, systems, and ways of governing can all be found in music. My music of choice American rap almost always has a theme connecting in some way to gender, of course, that depends on your perspective. If gender places a role in society, it will be heard in music. This could be why across distance and time one thing that is seen in all cultures and music are different parallels of gender. In this blog, I am going to give examples of popular songs in rap culture and how it relates to gender in mainly the African American community.     There are a lot of different angles and perspectives about women in this community as in any other. This song by Deante Hitchcock to me represen...