Rap is the most misogynistic genre in the history of music, it is not surprising at all that a rap enthusiast would share the views of the artists whose music he listens to.
If you honestly think misogyny–or, at a minimum, objectification of women–isn't easy to find in modern rap genres, I'd say you're seriously misinformed or delusional.
Eminem has the #3 album on iTunes right now. Here's one lyrical excerpt[0]:
Snatch the bitch out her car through the window, she screamin’ / I body slam her onto the cement, until the concrete gave and created a sinkhole / Bury this stink ho in it, then paid to have the street re-paved.
[0] http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/eminem-hip-hop-we-shouldn...
[Dr. Dre] picked her up by her hair and "began slamming her head and the right side of her body repeatedly against a brick wall near the stairway" as his bodyguard held off the crowd with a gun. After Dre tried to throw her down the stairs and failed, he began kicking her in the ribs and hands. She escaped and ran into the women's rest room. Dre followed her and "grabbed her from behind by the hair again and proceeded to punch her in the back of the head."
N.W.A.'s MC Ren later said "bitch deserved it", and Eazy-E "yeah, bitch had it coming." As Dr. Dre explained the incident, "People talk all this shit, but you know, somebody fuck with me, I'm gonna fuck with them. I just did it, you know. Ain't nothing you can do now by talking about it. Besides, it ain't no big thing-- I just threw her through a door."
Drill [1] for instance, is without a doubt more violent, misogynistic, and 'real' than any gangsta rap ever before.
Compare this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc0zKB88XPM
There are plenty of celebrated female rappers, whereas Last Night Of The Proms had their first ever female conductor only last year and they've been going since 1895.
Misogyny is a system wherein women are subject to mistreatment.
Note that I am not advocating either system, and am an ardent feminist.
Is rap really more misogynistic than rock? Or is it perceived as such for obvious reasons.
Topic has its own wikipedia entry...with 71 footnotes.
Edit: Sample
Misogyny is prevalent in hip hop culture.[38] Overt misogyny in rap music emerged in the late 1980s, and has since then been a feature of the music of numerous hip hop artists.[2] A survey of adolescents showed that 66% of black girls and 57% of black boys believe that rap music videos portray black women in "bad and offensive ways".[39] Gangsta rap, the most commercially successful subgenre of hip hop,[40] has been particularly criticized and associated with misogyny.[7][41]
Even if this subject was "simply debatable", there is at least a prima-facie case that it should not be disissed out of hand. Nor in such a careless manner.
I mean, the rock music scene has problems with treatment of women - both in the fandom and the bands themselves - and if you start going back to the heydey of rock music you find utterly horrifying actions, but if you're talking about pure lyrical content? It's hard to say that any genre comes close to the proliferation of mysogyny in mainstream hip-hop.
I don't think that's an inherent quality of the genre, though. But it is a fact of many of the popular artists.
And zenbowman's comment can be racist without mentioning race. I might be upset because the U.S. has a black president, and say "our political system has gone to hell!" and that would be a racist statement even if I didn't explicitly spell out that my reason for thinking so was the existence of a black president.
Rap is misogynistic, no doubt. Sure it has some positive sides to it (protest) but most rap today is not about that.
http://rapgenius.com/Dr-dre-bitches-aint-shit-lyrics "Bitches ain't shit but hoes and tricks / Lick on these nuts and suck the dick / Get's the fuck out after you're done / And I hops in my ride to make a quick run."
This is pretty tame by today's rap standards where rape and violence are glorified. Don't excuse the violence by claiming that it is racist to point out the obvious truth.
For the record, Afrocentric rap is much less misogynistic than gangsta rap, which is relatively race-neutral.