Through research i have thought carefully about the location to shoot my video, i want to use gritty urban locations with city back drops, vivid colours and studio to create the perfect rap video.
My favourite female rapper would have to be Lil' Kim without doubt the best female rapper in the game she's an amazing feminist reversing the roles when it comes to male and female sexual views. Kim changed the rap game by making men the bitches she talks about how she is the queen of the rap game and sexually exploits men in the bedroom department rapping about her sex life openly, to me Lil' Kim is amazing as she is able to turn the tables around. Kim's fashion is iconic designers such as Chanel and Versace actually based collections on her, her looks and lyrics are iconic and her influence has helped create my ideas behind the fashion and some of scenes in which i will producing as part of my video.
Kim's fashion influence and attitude will be used within my video project, many of looks that I will be using are based around her music, style and back ground story.
at the Chanel party
Wednesday 29 October 2014
PHOTOGRAPHIC INFLUENCE
DAVID LACHAPELLE
GUILTY THINGS 2003
JESUS IS MY HOME BOY
BRITNEY
LIL' KIM
Donatella Versace, Lil Kim, missy Elliot, and rose McGowan. by David LaChapelle 1999
Internet rap culture
My video will be exploring the idolisation of rap culture within the 21st century using gay, religious and gender references that contradict the rap culture that is stereotypically to how we know it of today, I will be exploring the fashion, background and culture and this blog is a mix up of my influences that will help me create a crazy rap video.
Cam'Ron Oh boy 2002 Roc-A-Fella Records, LLC
A lot of my influences come from the early 2000s rappers where the fashion was loud and all about diamonds and furs, the lyrics within these songs are derogatory to women and women are used as props within these videos creating the sexual selling points that are commonly used within music videos throughout the years.
50 cent PIMP ft Snoop Dogg 2003 Shady Records/Aftermath Records/Interscope Records
As much as i love this video and song it is a perfect example of how women are used as sexual props and referred to as ''bitch'' within the 21st century rap culture. Women are constantly referred to as bitches and this video captures this in a bold form by having two girls on dog collars, even though the video is very derogatory to women the fashion and the title ''pimp'' represents the 21st century rap culture, 50 cent is a rapper/artist that perfectly creates this illusion of being gangster, having the hoes, money and cars inviting the viewer into this world of gangster paradise.
