Violence
In the introduction of the reading, Black Men and Black Women in Hip Hop: Misogyny, Violence, and the Negotiation of (White-Owned) Space, Rebollo-Gil and Moras argued that for some people that has an issue with today's hip hop, "the problem is the vulgarity of the language or the crudeness of speech. For others, it is the violence in the lyrical content."(Rebollo-Gil, Moras, 118). When it comes to Hopsin's music, he doesn't sugar-coat everything that is wrong with mainstream hip-hop and society today. He uses violence in his rhymes as shock value in order to get his point across. Sometimes he uses violence in his lyrics just for his own form of entertainment.
Take "Sag My Pants" and "Kill Her" for example below. In "Sag My Pants", Hopsin uses his anger and violence to verbally attack the mainstream rappers such as Lil Wayne, Drake, Soulja Boy, Lupe Fiasco, and Rick Ross. He also threaten Eazy-E's widower and current owner of Ruthless Records, Tomica Wright, due to his treatment at Ruthless. In the music video of "Kill Her", it shows a parody of the horror movie Saw. In his lyrics he continues to verbally attack Tomica Wright, letting the audience know that he still holds a grudge with the her and Ruthless.
As I previously mentioned earlier, Hopsin uses his form of violence in his music only for entertainment purposes. However, Hopsin mentions that there are most parents who finds his songs offensive for the younger audience. In The Hip Hop Wars, Tricia Rose argues that rappers claim that violence is everywhere isn't a compelling case for hip hop's heightened investment in violent storytelling, however it is important to pay attention to the issue of unfair targeting, blame, and the compounded effect this perception of blacks as more violent has on black youth (Rose, 37). In the song, "I'm Not Crazy", Hopsin, SwizZz, and Cryptic Wisdom says that they are not crazy, but if they were crazy they would do such things such as swimming in gallons of gasoline, throwing babies in dryers, sniffing cocaine and cutting their own penises off for the Pain Olympics, or masturbating with sandpaper while watching The View.
Take "Sag My Pants" and "Kill Her" for example below. In "Sag My Pants", Hopsin uses his anger and violence to verbally attack the mainstream rappers such as Lil Wayne, Drake, Soulja Boy, Lupe Fiasco, and Rick Ross. He also threaten Eazy-E's widower and current owner of Ruthless Records, Tomica Wright, due to his treatment at Ruthless. In the music video of "Kill Her", it shows a parody of the horror movie Saw. In his lyrics he continues to verbally attack Tomica Wright, letting the audience know that he still holds a grudge with the her and Ruthless.
As I previously mentioned earlier, Hopsin uses his form of violence in his music only for entertainment purposes. However, Hopsin mentions that there are most parents who finds his songs offensive for the younger audience. In The Hip Hop Wars, Tricia Rose argues that rappers claim that violence is everywhere isn't a compelling case for hip hop's heightened investment in violent storytelling, however it is important to pay attention to the issue of unfair targeting, blame, and the compounded effect this perception of blacks as more violent has on black youth (Rose, 37). In the song, "I'm Not Crazy", Hopsin, SwizZz, and Cryptic Wisdom says that they are not crazy, but if they were crazy they would do such things such as swimming in gallons of gasoline, throwing babies in dryers, sniffing cocaine and cutting their own penises off for the Pain Olympics, or masturbating with sandpaper while watching The View.