Kathryn T. Gines explores how myths and stereotypes of blackness are produced in television in her essay, “Queen Bees and Big Pimps: Sex and Sexuality in Hip Hop” published in 2005. She exemplifies this through existentialist philosophical notions of objectification, the gaze, and performativity, to determine authenticity and make choice in either conforming to society’s standard of Black, or creating new, radical performances in society. Her points targeted mainstream hip-hop artists but failed to mention how the puppeteers that own the industry control these artists. While the images do portray a derogatory image of Blacks, they are only transmitted because white-owned companies own and project these images. While it is imperative to inform