By focusing in on these specific areas for the different women a perfect female image is being created. She then explains the impact of the image between African Americans and Caucasian women. First she states that black women are expected to have larger bodies especially behinds as compared to white women who are suppose to be slimmer. With that said, black girls are more likely to have high self-esteem and better body images then white girls. Perry believes the media has a large impact on a young women's ideal body image. She does believe this will drop now due to the ideal images in hip-hop videos today. The body type of black women in hip-hop videos is as difficult to obtain for most black women as the "waif," thin white model body image is for white women. .
While this misogynistic image of black women is perpetuated by most male hip-hop artists, male female hip-hop artists present a different side of womanhood. Perry explains that female hip-hop artists have had a strong feminist message, from the early years of MC Lyte and Queen Latifah, to the Missy Elliot and Eve. Strong women rejecting the subjugation of females in hip-hop, forge their own way with strong messages and lyrical content to contradict the images found in male videos. They also represent themselves in videos as stylish, but never in an objectifying manner. These strong women present an image of sex appeal without the sexual exploitation, giving the image of owning the female sex appeal, but being in control of it. .
Perry then goes on to discuss female artist who have a strong message, but also exhibit conflicting images in their videos. Perry says, " often the words and language of a hip-hop song may have feminist content but the visual image may be implicated in the subjugation of black women" (Perry, p.139, 2003). Artists such as Lil" Kim and Trina are marketed in a way that is similar to which the video models are objectified (Perry, 2003).