Bitch Bad Analysis Lupe Fiasco’s “Bitch Bad” directed by Gil Green, is conceptualized around how the perception from both males and females of females is impacted by mainstream rap in the modern hip-hop world. Fiasco develops this by telling stories in different scenes of the video and explains them out in the lyrics. Lupe Fiasco took an objectified approach to several sensitive issues and tried to rectify them by illustrating the detrimental messages delivered in media as an ethical appeal to his audience. He used examples from modern hip-hop and broke down the overarching meaning in attitudes developed in result to what mainstream media depicts. Text Breakdown In the first scene, Lupe Fiasco goes on a monologue depicting how the image of a bitch has been intergraded and accepted in society as normality. In this scene you see a little boy and his mother riding round town jamming up to the radio. Now the highlight of this scene is the mother ranting off to the boy how bad of a bitch she is saying, "Niggas, I'm a bad bitch, and I'm that bitch / something that's far above average." The boy’s concept of what a woman …show more content…
His message was received rather differently than he intended however as several people take the lyrics of the song to be offensive. One of these issues is the main chorus where Fiasco says, “Bitch bad, woman good, lady better, they’re misunderstood.” In response to these lyrics, many accused Fiasco of mansplaining, attempting to over simplify a complicated issue with condescending misogynistic mannerism. Women expressed their outright displeasure stating this music video was a narrative attempting to tell their story for them through assumptions on Lupe Fiasco’s part (Slate). Fiasco claimed in this video, “I just wanted to have a conversation. It was more to just put it out in the world and see what