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Tracy Sharpley-Whiting, professor of French and chair of Africana Studies, was interviewed for an on-line article that denounces hip hop music for glorifying pimping for Women's ENews. Hip hop, popular urban rap music, was the second most-popular music genre in 2002, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. Hip hop lyrics often contain references to pimping and prostitution, which sends a bad message to teenage girls, says Sharpley-Whiting. "They see that one acquires money and goods by dominating women and they pick up on the message," says Sharpley-Whiting. She is writing a book about feminism, hip hop and young black women.

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