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Nelly Tip Drill Analysis

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An illustration of misogyny would be Nelly’s music video ‘Tip Drill;’ whereby he participates in the objectification of women. Specifically, filming half naked women, using a worm eye angle shot to explicitly show the women’s rear end. In the music video Nelly is partaking in hyper masculine behaviour by grabbing females’ body parts, tossing money on them and swiping his credit card through their buttock. This exemplifies misogynistic characteristic identified by scholars; women are dehumanized and portrait as eye candy, worthless and sexual beings for men pleasure. Subsequently, these minimal representations of black women can be damaging to one’s conscious; it is also a form of othering African American females, not acknowledging their individualism
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