Nelly swiping a credit card through a females buttocks.

A perfect example of misogyny in hip-hop is in the song titled “Tip Drill” by Nelly which is a music video that he produced of many young women dancing around wearing barely any clothing. According to the article “Female Students Spurn Nelly,” Nelly’s music video became so controversial because of how it depicted women as mere sexual objects to men (“Female Students Spurn Nelly”). In the music video, the women are dressed extremely provocatively which implies that they are there to please men and give them sex. They are mostly wearing bikinis and/or thongs so that their entire backside is hanging out for men to see. There is a scene where Nelly literally swipes a credit card through a woman’s behind, and then the women’s buttocks starts bouncing for him (“Female Students Spurn Nelly”). The women are dancing all over the guys in the video, and they are also dancing all over each other. Throughout the video, the women’s faces are barely seen and people just see their rear ends which are very visible. The reason for the women’s buttocks being extra popular in this video is because of what the video is about. According to the article “Females Students Spurt Nelly,” a “tip drill” is a slang term used for a girl that has an ugly face, but that has a nice body (“Female Students Spurn Nelly”). Therefore, the women’s faces in this video should not be seen, but their nice bodies should be shown off. Part of the lyrics to the rap song are "I said it must be ya ass cause it ain't ya face, I need a tipdrill, I need a tipdrill" (“Nelly-Tip Drill Lyrics”). Nelly is saying that the only reason he would want to associate with these girls is because of their nice bodies as their faces are not attractive at all. This music video became a huge controversy at Spelman College. Asha Jennings, a student at Spelman College had been planning a bone marrow drive. Spelman college teamed with 4Sho4Kids which is a foundation started by Nelly to bring the public’s attention to the important cause (“Female Students Spurn Nelly”). A few weeks before the drive, Jennings became familiar with the music video “Tip Drill” that Nelly had released. She was appalled by what she saw. She could not believe Nelly would treat black people that way, while he was trying to be a part of a cause that helps people with leukemia. His own sister has leukemia and she thought that he was trying to help her, but instead in his music video, he was degrading countless black women. At the time, Jennings did not know that this music video had driven another Spelman student, Moya Bailey to action. Jennings and Bailey decided that they were going to team up together and draft a formal letter that stated the foundation was invited to the bone marrow drive at Spelman College, but Nelly would not be welcome. Before Jennings was able to go through with this the foundation canceled the drive as they had been informed that students planned on confronting Nelly about the disturbing music video. Jennings and Bailey proceeded with their protest despite the foundation canceling the drive. They played the music video every half hour so students around the school could see what the issue was. This event became widely known as the “Nelly Controversy” (“Female students spurn Nelly over explicit rap video”). Nelly reacted to this video a few years later and expressed his thoughts. In the article, “Nelly Has Harsh Words for Spelman Protestors, Rapper says, “I Don’t Have My Sister Today,” Nelly states, “I come down there to teach people about leukemia and help benefit and try to help save lives and try to find a donor for my sister” (“Nelly Has Harsh Words”). He was furious because the purpose of his visit to the college was to educate scholars about the disease, but instead students protest against him because of a music video. He responded to the protests with, “instead of doing that and help and teaching our community about a bigger issue as far as healthcare, you want to have a three hour conversation about a f-king video. Now, where are our priorities in it?" ("Nelly Has Harsh Words"). About a year later his sister died from leukemia because a donor was never found. The reason he was going to the college was to search for a donor for his sister which is why he was so mad that students were protesting against him because of a music video ("Nelly Has Harsh Words").