Shawn

[|Rap Masculinity] -Talks about how rap has become a result of what America views as masculine. -The writer says that "we live in a society where manhood is all about conquering and violence." -“America is a very hypermasculine, hyperaggressive nation,” filmmaker Byron Hurt says. -Hip-hop was born out of South Bronx ghettoes/ talks about how in these ghettoes rap was used to talk about their life on the "streets", which was violent always talking about "guns, gangs, and prison culture" -This article also talks about how being big and musculer provides respect if you're colored or working class white male where wealthier people earn respect in other ways. -rap tells boys and men that in order to be "in the box" or masculine you need to have a lot of girls, lots of money, have authority over everybody, dominate other men and people, be a player or pimp, and many others. This makes males strive for all that because if they be brave and go "out of the box" then people would call them "soft or weak or a pussy or a chump or a faggot"