Response Paper: Lupe Fiasco Bitch Bad

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Lupe Fiasco Bitch Bad
Bitch bad concept portrays people encountering each other, with the hip-hop content. The young generation delivers contradictory conclusions of the "bitch" context. In his song, Lupe delivers a message that listeners and audiences receive differently with some acclaiming it as others criticized the audio and video of the music. The song aims at exposing the "bad bitch" concept; thus, I disagree with the raised criticism. This does not properly augur well with expectations, and listeners will have to reconsider their thoughts about them.
Two young people encountered mainstream hip-hop and ended up with differing conclusions. The young man in the first verse listens to the song together with his mother. The result of it is the strong-willed woman portraying "bad bitch" as someone emulative. The definition of the term as per the woman is an independent woman. The second verse focuses on several girls watching hip-hop videos unsupervised. The girls ended up taking the images and song lyrics at a face value. The third verse presents a scenario where the young girl meets the boy dressing just like the women she saw in the music video. Lupe describes her as trying to be impressive with ass, tits, and breasts, just like that. Such are physical outlooks that people believed mattered most to some fraction of the audience. This was not appealing to the boy seen as the girl represents the wrong type of "bad bitch" to the freshman raised by a "bad bitch". The girl is a bad "bad bitch" instead.
From its hook, an explanation of the different types of female names has its importance. A lady, "bitch," and a woman. Lupe sings, "Bitch bad, woman good, lady better". This shows the lady that is associated with holiness described as the best of acceptable women. However, this poses the question of who can accept the title "lady" (Carney 412-426). A bitch is demeaned bad while a woman is seen as descent. The song is the "conscious" type that aims at replacing one kind of sexist to another. This song reminds one of Azealia Banks' songs 212, which uses "cunt" to blow the listeners' minds and inspire enthusiastic reactions. The clothing style in 212 does not meet Fiasco's approval. The song hinges on the clothes worn by the women in the video.
The kids encounter with the explicit hip-hop content in "Bitch bad" behind the scenes footage leads to reckless commentary about their social lifestyles. The fake video of a rapper behind the girls seems aimed at 50 Cent. A man is seen mugging as an exclusive "video hoe" then signs for "Sugar Water" undoubtedly referring to 50 Cent involvement in Vitamin Water. As the video approaches its end, the 50 stand-ins are witnessed. The man in wife-beater applies blackface symbolizing the rappers, and models are a modernized form of the blackface.
Fiasco explained in a TV interview that the song was a conversation. The aim was to see the World's reaction to the "bad bitch" concept. Being a conversation starter, therefore, evades the criticism about children offensively explored (Woods, Alyssa, and Lori Burns 29-44). The video will, therefore, live to serve its purpose and receiving praise from all those who support challenging the mai...