Hip Hop Honeys, Finke, Brian

What do you call the women in hip-hop videos? The often nameless ones who are featured dancing or posing, whose presence signals baller status for the usually male rapper they are there to support-are they hip-hop honeys, video vixens, video girls, models, dancers? Are they revered, over-sexualized, demeaned, or empowered? Are they stars or set pieces? Who are the women you see in videos?Photographer Brian Finkespent three years hanging out at backstage music-video shoots, getting to know these hip-hop honeys, . Finke brings his style of robustportraiture and documentary photography to the women who appear in countless videos for artists like Busta Rhymes, Kanye West, and many other B and C level video artists.