Rose states, “for social, sexual, and cultural reasons young women would be much less likely to be permitted or feel comfortable spending such extended time in a male neighbors home” (Rose 23). In the article titled “Rap Music, American Sociologist, Trica Rose, writes about how the dominance of men in the music industry would make women uncomfortable while they were present in the studios. Whereas, men in the industry, are praised for their misogynistic and sexist lyrics made about women in their popular rap and hip-hop songs. Within the music industry, the female artist faces a continuous struggle of being judge by using their body to portray their image. However, the reigning controversial question is, how can men make sexist lyrics about women’s bodies, but when women rap about their bodies they receive hatred and disgust? Every time you listen to a new rap or hip-hop song, by any male artist, it never fails to hear vulgar lyrics that are degrading to a women’s body. Soon after the song was released in August of 2020, the rappers gained hatred immediately following, by mainly male figures. The song radiates body positivity, it gives females around the world confidence to own their body, empowerment would be the ideal word to describe it. Moreover, although the lyrics of the song are explicit, the song and visual has a more symbolic meaning to it. It can be presumed that the artist based their visual around that idea, due to the fact of the fun-house like mansion, with the involving of exotic animals and women, that represent them as a type of magical figures. This scene could remind a person of the infamous movie and book, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, that featured a varicolored factory with numerous different mystical creations inside. They are both symbolic of the different body parts of a male and female.Ī main scene in the video captures the rappers dancing in a neon green and purple factory type room, with backup dancers wearing all neon green outfits and hair. With that being said the camera goes door to door, displaying the different animals such as snakes and tigers, that deem a more intimate meaning with the song. Inside of the mansion, the halls and rooms are brightly colored and disfigured, representing it as more of a fun-house that features exotic animals and women in every room. The two then appear to be strutting the halls of a flooded mansion, wearing alluring outfits, surrounded by gold female body figurines on the walls.

The video opens up with the cameras entering through the gates of a mansion, slowly zooming in on a fountain with a statue of nude females dispersing water as it enters the doors of the flooding house. In the music video for the song, “WAP”, by the chart-breaking female artists, Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion, they together convey a visual of sexual seduction.

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