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Title: "From Fly Girls to Bitches And Hos"
Author: Joan Morgan

In the article "From Fly Girls to bitches and hos", the author, Joan MOrgan strives to understand and discern the causes of sexism in rap and hip hop culture. Joan discloses the undeniable connection between sexism and racism in hip-hop. Morgan analyzes the social structure of the hip-hop community and it's influences and believes the abundance of sexism to be a sort the sequential result of oppression.  In the effort to amend this debilitating pathology, Joan reasons with the women affected to take the first steps in feminist advancements by understanding where the sexism stems from.

The number of black two-parent households has decreased from 74 percent to 48 percent since 1960.

The leading cause of death among black men ages fifteen to twenty-four is homicide. The majority of them will die at the hands of other black men.

-“It’s extremely telling that men who can only see us as “bitches” and “hos”  refer to themselves only as niggas"

-Notorious B.I.G. album Ready to Die relefcts his own life experiences ex."Jail, murder, drug dealing, getting paid, partying, sexin’"(603).