Beyond Beats and RhymesBeyond Beats and RhymesPAPER #3In Beyond Beats and Rhymes, filmmaker Byron Hurt challenges hip-hop musicians and fans to start thinking “outside the box.” The box that Byron is speaking of is that they write songs about bitches, hoes, drugs and killing others, in other words objectifying women and masculinity. In order to support his thesis that hip-hop has changed dramatically from its original roots, he went to Florida for an event being held by a popular hip hop network. While at this event he greatly proves his point, he shows people freestyling and battling and all they rap about is killing people and making other men feel like women by calling them bitches and faggots etc.
In Beyond Beats and Rhymes, Byron speaks of a generation of young people who started by downloading free Beats and Rhymes. As the older and more confident generation began to take part in the rap scene they would be encouraged to listen to the material they loved and record their own music if needed. He explains that that started with a certain style of music and he doesn’t tell people if they have to listen as much as they want, but they should as long as they are doing what they love, regardless of what others may think. He talks about the differences between rap and hip-hop, what they love and not, and all of that stuff about how he wanted to work through his differences. In Beyond Beats and Rhymes he talks about the new style of “gangsta rap” which is now part of the mainstream. Byron also speaks about the difference between what a rap song about beating up a woman sounds like and what a “B.I.F.” sounds like, when an artist doesn’t like someone she is making a video about how he wants them to like. He talks about how he started making videos about his family with women on the label like “The B.F.”, “B.I.F.” and what people were saying on his page about liking certain tracks. Byron shows up at a studio to record something and starts talking about his current success and how big of a success it has been. In Beyond Beats and Rhymes, he talks about the differences between people and music genres and shows the people that love music the most. Byron writes from his experience:
It’s a beautiful, interesting story. And it has a very clear message. It’s simple. And people love it. I get so many emails on my Instagram saying that the story’s so simple. Why do you believe it? Because I’m the first person I’ve seen who really understands what it does to a woman. And I’m happy with that, and I hope so. I’m actually very optimistic and excited about the future, but I don’t see what it is going to be like in the future. That’s not true: If anything, there needs to be a big change and we need to get it right and make the way for young people to be comfortable with the music of their parents, their peers, and the music of their sisters. And so that’s what I’m proposing. I’m telling you this: you’ve got to make it really great, because when we use a word, or try to use things that can look to us a bit weird or something, then we get pulled by people and we fall. It doesn’t matter who uses it, because it changes people’s perspective and our opinion too. We need to make it
Everything he sees at this event shows different types of conflict models. It shoes white majority vs. ethnic minorities when rappers talk about living in ghettos and white people who live in the suburbs listen to rap as their only means of understanding what black people go through in their lives you could also include