Hip-Hop, Gender, Race, and Capitalism  When students at Spelman
College cancelled Nelly’s appearance due to his misogynistic
portraying African American women in a video, hip-hop and rap
came under particular scrutiny for an issue both dominant within
the industry yet, despite is visceral appearance, little
discussed. But how responsible are the artists themselves for
their continued sexism in their music?  Mark Anthony Neal was
insightful to point out that the industry thrives on sexism, and
that asking artists to promote a feminist vision would be asking
them to drop their contracts and start selling far fewer
records. After all, radical acts like the Coup are, despite
their vision, small players in the industry as a whole. Yet
clearly by playing this game, the major artists are responsible
for proliferating sexism the potency of which alters the mores
of huge segments of the youth population.   This insight turns
our attention to an issue fundamentally important if we want to
address the pervasiveness of s