Media programs like hip-hop music videos are powerful aesthetic agents that inspire teenagers. Thus, they have tremendous influence on young people's identity formation, lifestyle choices, and knowledge construction which are manifested in the ways teens dress, express themselves, behave, and interact with each other. However, because of the controversies associated with sexism, racism, homophobia, and materialism often seen in hip-hop music videos, educators seem to rarely discuss or examine them in their classroom settings. The messages in hip-hop music videos in particular, perpetuate gender stereotypes and discrimination and attempt to normalize unequal social behavior under the label of art. Contemporary art educators advocate the importance of fostering media/visual literacy in children through critically examining discursive cultural and aesthetic sites in the popular media. In concert with art education's goal of fostering critical media/visual literacy in future citizens, this article explores issues of sexism in hip-hop music videos and proposes ways to engage high school students in deconstructing their popular visual culture. It provides art teachers with critical tools for educating their young adults about how hip-hop culture discursively glorifies sexist portrayals in the name of art and how it presents sexism as an acceptable, normalized social practice. (Contains 1 table and 9 endnotes.)