Pimps and Hoes (7)

The hip-hop industry took this idea of a pimp and hoe and turned it into something incredibly common in the world of hip hop. They made it seem more appealing and desirable to its audience thus ridding away with any previously established ideas that it was bad. It is very common within music videos to see the this pimp and hoe idea played out, the men within the video especially the lead artist is the pimp who is surrounded by many hoes (scantily dressed woman). The video below is 50 cents P.I.M.P video, in the first scene we see 50 cent rapping while sitting in a chair surrounded by woman, in very little clothing I might add, dressing 50 cent and dancing. Portraying this idea of a pimp being a man who has a group of woman, his hoes, available to wait on him while looking sexy. 

If we look at some of the lyrics within the song, we see woman being degraded and treated as being easily replaced. Such as when 50 cent says,  "Man this hoe you can have her, when I'm done I ain't gon keep her. Man, bitches come and go, every n**** pimpin know" (from the third verse). This idea that woman are hoes and therefore easily replaced is a sad ideal to be communicating, especially to young audiences some of the primary viewers and listeners of videos such as these.