REPRESENTATION.

'Eye Candy' is used a lot in rap videos, but what effect does this have on women and men's perception on how they thin women should act and be like?

Eye Candy or Hip Hop Honeys, are often seen dancing and posing in music videos, next to the artists themselves.
However, as I have personally seen in a documentary watched in class about hip hop honeys, not all of these women in the video are getting paid... Half of them just showed up, auditioned and hope to get recognition from another artist/director, in order to get paid. Almost like chasing after a dream.

But some people are told that they're not good enough to even be put into a video. Whether that is because of their skin colour, weight or even height, it varies.
This can often hurt and give a blow to the women auditioning for the opportunity to be recognised.
It then leads to the streotypical action of paying for boob and bum implants, to gain attention.
This usually isn't because the woman wants it for herself, but to please men with it. It can cost up to thousands of pounds to get those types of operations done, and in addition, most of them still aren't getting paid, so they loose money and don't gain anything out of it.

On the other hand, not all hip hop honeys are struggling with earning money and being successful. A lot of the successful hip hop honeys earn thousands of pounds not only for featuring in a music video, but just to be present on set!

Other women would feel that women are being exploited in these explicit music videos, and that it has a negative effect on the women that resent these perceptions. Almost presenting women as sexual objects to men, and that all women need to have big boobs and bums.

Perhaps you could say that men are blind and oblivious to this and the fact that what they're doing is morally wrong and counts as exploitation. But most men that are in charge of these music video production labels say, that no one is forcing these girls to audition and take off their clothes for camera. But they do tend to try and make women feel good about themselves, implying that they have a perfect body if they are picked for the video.

In my own opinion, I do not believe that all women are represented in a bad way because of hip hop honeys, and I believe that what hip hop honeys want to do is their choice, who are we to tell them what to do?
As most people recognise and know me as a young rap artist, from a rappers point of view, I know that a lot of people in my audience and other audience's like to see hip hop honeys and female dancers. But this doesn't have to be in such an explicit nature. However, as an artist, you have to know and realise when you're being lead and told what to do by you're audience, and become a puppet, almost like the same position some hip hop honeys find themselves stuck in.