Hip Hop the modern day soundtrack to misogyny?

Actress Ashley Judd created quite an uproar with her statement "As far as I’m concerned, most rap and hip-hop music — with it’s rape culture and insanely abusive lyrics and depictions of girls and women as ‘ho’s’ — is the contemporary soundtrack of misogyny". I can see that the statement could be controversial because it kind of lumps all rap and hip hop music together. I would be quicker to agree with the statement if she would have distinguished " most MAINSTREAM rap and hip-hop music..." I think this statement has a lot of truth to it. The lyrics of many popular rap songs are extremely degrading to women. Mainstream hip hop artists take it a step further with their music videos. The girls in them are depicted as nothing more than objects of sexual desire. I think that a handful of popular hip hop artists give the genre a bad reputation. Billy Drease Williams proved in class on Monday that there are rap artists that do not conform to this vulgar, misogynistic norm. Unfortunately, sex sells very well and many popular rap artists are cashing in on it and degrading women in the process.