Media Homework: Representation

50 cent's music video "Candy Shop" is telling us about his love for women.
It includes a lot of half naked girls stripping.. Clearly his idea of a candy shop is fairly different to what we would of thought.
It gives us an idea of what kind of things he is into, plus what he thinks of women. He could be creating a stereotype for women, himself. It does look appealing for young boys such as myself and many others that would like to look at a good looking woman, but what would a woman think if she saw this video of what men percieve them to be and act like?
Maybe this is what 50 thinks the fame and money leads us to, that final reward of a beautiful woman at your doorstep.

And that brings me onto my evaluation of Jay Z's music video "Big Pimpin'". This video is set on a yacht and on a beach; giving it that upbeat and summer feeling.
In comparison to 50's video, both of them had a lot of women... But Jay Z's video seemed to have another level of class to it. Not only were there women dancing around in bikini's on a yacht and in a carnival, but there was a huge amount of champagne being sprayed around, money being thrown into crowds, and gold chains being worn. This to me suggests that JayZ feels as though he has made it as an artist, he has time to dance with his friends and perform at a carnival and still have a good time with girls.


As I am a young rap artist myself, you would probably be wondering what i think about the situation and as to whether i agree with the representation of rappers. All i can simply say is that I agree with Jay Z's representation more than 50 Cent's because it adds a level of achievment to what hw's worked so hard to get for most of his life. On the other hand with fifty's video, I don't think that we should judge all rappers just from one video they produce for us, there is more music out there for people to listen to with a hiuge amount of stories and representations for us to take in; I guess the main question is... Which representation do you choose to believe?...

Jordan Onyeka