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Examples Of Masculinity In Hip Hop

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Secondly, “gender” is the key elements of cultural formation of hip-hop. When focusing on this aspect, there are obvious influences from African American hip-hop to Asian hip hop. The fashion of the black people, so-called street fashion presents the connotative bad image of black people, such as drag and violence. Therefore, it can be presumed that these fashion establishes the symbol of bad authority or “manliness” to Asian rapper. Therefore, in the most of the music video of Asian hip-hop, the rappers wear caps, oversize t-shirt, and gold accessories, like African American rappers do.
On the other hand, the different way to describe their “manhood” can be seen in the music videos. The concept of “masculinity” in the original hip hop which

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