“Don't slap that ass or pull your hair like that” is a rather vulgar and demeaning statement, yet it is freely sung in Blurred Lines by Robin Thicke, a song that in 2013 was in the top ten of Billboard's list of most popular R&B/hip-hop songs. Because hip-hop is a very important part of African-American culture and many speakers of African American English (AAE) are portrayed through these songs, women are often heavily influenced by the objectification of their bodies in hip-hop songs. Since the emergence of the hip-hop genre in popular culture in the 1960s and 1970s, women's bodies have been sexually objectified through this music. While the impact of the sexualization of women's bodies in hip-hop songs is still widespread, its effect has diminished in recent years due to a learned linguistic way of navigating misogynistic words that belittle women's humanity. Without a doubt, it's not hard to hear the sexualization of women's bodies in hip-hop music – and it's clear that the impact this has is not positive. Margaret Hunter linguistically analyzed the top fifteen “Hot Rap Tracks” on the Billboard charts in 2007 and 2008 and the best music videos of those years. Her analysis shows that gender relations often become object relations in these songs and that women's body parts are very often depicted as objects rather than parts of a human being. Additionally, she found that there were many references in the songs to a man's desire to see women dance for him “as if [they were] strippers” (Hunter 28). Since the introduction of hip-hop music into popular culture, the sexualization of women has increased, especially as the common occurrence of words like "let it show" seems to point to... middle of paper... .suffering young women of all races of present objectification and reinforcing the idea that women are human and should not have to adapt, even if they can, linguistically to remain humanized. Works Cited Hunter, Margaret. “Shake It, Baby, Shake It: Consumption and the New Gender Relationship in Hip-Hop.” Sociological Perspectives 54.1 (2011): 15-36. JSTOR. Network. May 2, 2014. Peoples, Whitney A. ""Under Construction": Identifying the Foundations of Hip-Hop Feminism and Exploring the Bridges Between Second-Wave Black Feminism and Hip-Hop." Meridians 8.1 (2008): 19 -52. JSTOR. Network. May 2, 2014. "2013 Annual R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Ranking." Advertising billboard. Np, nd Web. 02 May 2014.Richardson, Elaine. “‘She Was Working Like Forreal’: Critical Literacies and Discursive Practices of African American Women in the Hip Hop Era.” Speech and Society 18.6 (2007): 789-809. ProQuest. Network. May 2 2014.