Spreading awareness
Human Trafficking In America
Music you might listen to
How many of you like to "Bump" music in your car while driving? I know I do! Yes, I’ve been guilty of playing some of the songs listed below. However that was before I decided to take the time to analyze the music I was strongly bumping and singing along to. Take a couple of minutes evaluating your music choices.
The media has done a horrible job as how they project human trafficking. They have found a way to glamorize human trafficking and one of the ways has been through music. Below are a couple of the songs that I would wish to get your attention. They are all quite different but share the same message. Take a look at my analyzed notes of the songs projecting that glamorized human trafficking.
Pimpin all Over the World
By Ludacris
"I would'nt trade you for the world I swear it
I like ya hair and every style that you wear it
And how the colors coordinate with your clothes
From your manicured nails to your pedicured toes"
Here Ludacris mentions how he sweet talks to his victims and how he pimps a ho from every place of the world.
Bitch Better Have My Money
by Rihanna
"Bitch better have my money!
Y'all should know me well enough
Bitch better have my money!
Please don't call me on my bluff
Pay me what you owe me"
Rihanna Is dressed as a projected pimp! Fur coat, chains, and glasses. She is asking for her owed money making her seem as she is the pimp and her hoes owe her the money of the night.
Hard Out Here for a Pimp by Hustle & Flow
"Im hoping ever night they dont end up being dead with it Wait I got a snow bunny and a black girl too you pay the right price and they'll do you"
He says its hard being a pimp because he has to work hard to not get caught. He hopes his hoes end up alive so that he can have more money and less problems and work. The descriptions of the type of girls is also mentioned.
"It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" Wins Original Song: 2006 Oscars
The fact that a song that describes a pimp's life and says its hard on him to manage all of his hoes, wins an Oscar is ridiculous! It shows the way society is shaped and formed.
P.I.M.P 50 Cent ft. Snoop Dogg and G-Unit
"If you fucking with me, I'm a P-I-M-P Not what you see on TV, no Cadillac, no greasyHead full of hair, bitch, I'm a P-I-M-P"
This song is describing 50 cent as an undercover pimp. He doesn't act like all of the pimps because he doesn't want to get caught but he makes it clear that he is still a Pimp.
Bitches Ain't Shit
Dr.Dre feat.Daz,Snoop Dogg,& Kuru
"Long as my motherfucking pockets was fat
I didn't give a fuck where the bitch was at
But she was hanging with a white bitch doing the shit she do
Sucking on his dick just to get a buck or 2"
This song describes how his bitches ain't of value because they are replaceable and he can get new bitches to get him his money. He mentions how unprofitable they would be without him