“Video hos,” and “Skeezers,” are two terms for women who willingly star in rap music videos. As the president of Rush Communications points out, “we never have any difficulty finding women to appear in the videos”. Such videos are increasingly becoming part of the gangster rap subgenre, home to offensive lyrics and images that glorify misogyny, emphasize promiscuous sexuality, and venerate violence. Racial epithets and swears are common, as is the advocacy of crime. The gangster rap culture that now attracts a large portion of the modern youth demographic – the black youth demographic in particular – is akin to...