Homosexuality and Hip-Hop : The Gay Rapper Thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5K8rcsez9I

cool, thx xp

Or well, check yr gmail in like... 5ish minutes.

Was wandering through the archives of www.patentleatherdaddy.com - blog curated by Kingdom, Fatima al-Qadiri, couple of other people - and stumbled on this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzWYVV-GaFg

He choreographed Single Ladies and Freakum Dress, also, I think?

yeah

https://twitter.com/jessicasuarez/status/170945957867958272

haha

also watch any interview w/ rocky and he says "no homo" like 20 times

that big freedia performance is awesome

haha this was pretty terrible tbh

maybe I shouldn't talk shit about sissy bounce on the homosexuality and hip-hop thread tho

omg the full text of that asap rocky thing

http://vimeo.com/37148523

never really got into blanco, had seen her around parties in persona and it's a turn off for me (tired of homo events inherently having to revolve around drag) so i haven't really paid much attention to the rap, dig that clip a lot though. mostly just because i love/hate that she managed to reference dren from splice and the doom generation in one take.

yeah, i totally share your wariness about drag as cultural cornerstone (but not as an artform), but i don't see what that has to do with her music. i had, for a while been under the impression she was fulltime trans, but i guess not.

in other news (and i'm not going to link to that garbage), apparently at least one half of yo majesty really hates jews.

lol i've been following max and rizzla on this but don't care to jump in

this song is OLD AS DUST (was on my best of 2008 list iirc lol) but they just made a video for it for some reason:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYOlYKkvRII

also, MISS PRADA >>>>>>>> :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHqUGfQpmcs

katz in the guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/shortcuts/2012/mar/07/rap-urban

sort of lame article "with fashion and music closer than ever" but anyway

Finally listening to the Ddm Winter and the Tinman's Heart mixtape and 'Fake Girls' interpolates MakeUp by Vanity 6 and it's <3 <3 <3

Yeah, that's def my favorite song on the tape

http://soundcloud.com/le1f/mindbody

Hmmm, looks like Dark York is finally coming out in April.

i don't know who Dark York is but that certainly doesn't sound like the name of a straight rapper

Dark York is Le1f's album.

just making a dad joke about the phrase "coming out" bruh

oh, right :)

Maino On Rappers: "Some of These Guys Got to be Gay"

I <3 Maino

Big article on Mykki, House of Ladosha, Le1f, Zebra Katz, Cakes da Killa, etc. in Pitchfork today: http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/8793-we-invented-swag/

Guffawed at the A$AP Rocky's comment about Ghe20 Goth1k. Ridiculous!

Someone should do an anthology of the yearly "this crop of underground gay rappers defy stereotypes" article that always seems to have a completely different crop of underground gay rappers

good article; lol he got scurrrrred at gg

that was a good read!

i find a lot of these guys' music really interesting but only zebra katz has translated that into an undeniably great song so far.

have you checked out house of ladosha at all? think my favorites ("hold up wait" and "tuna fish") are only on their myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/houseofladosha/music/songs?filter=featured

yeah i love their BMF refix but the others i heard were again...good ideas not great songs

that was a good read!

i find a lot of these guys' music really interesting but only zebra katz has translated that into an undeniably great song so far.

― lex pretend, Wednesday, March 21, 2012 1:05 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i agree with this

did we talk about the new diplo track/video with Nicky Da B?

quite a good read

le1f's mixtape dark york is streaming here - http://www.thefader.com/2012/04/18/stream-le1fs-dark-york-mixtape/

turns into a download in a week.

i shall get back to it in a week then

wish the vocals were produced/mixed better

start a thread for this imo

Ask and ye shall receive: Le1f - Dark York (2012): QPOC SHAKUR / #seapunk

micah domingo - leather (produced by rizzla)

http://soundcloud.com/micahdomingo/leather

Dana, this is a strange way to stay in the closet, girl.

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2012/05/queen-latifah-to-headline-pride-event.html

it's pretty sad/offensive that anyone period performing at a pride event immediately has to have their sexuality brought up

Latifah's kind of weird in general about being in/out. last year she exec produced a show, Single Ladies, in which she has a recurring guest role as a lesbian who claimed to have been involved w/ one of the main characters.

naux, faux, not when they've been in a glass closet for 20+ years.

buying into gossip and celebrity-hounding isn't any sort of excuse for it

also, what fictional character someone plays on a fictional tv show on an entertainment channel should also not be fodder at all for the aforementioned gossip and celebrity-hounding

i wasn't saying that. i was just saying that, given the rampant speculation, her choosing to cast herself in that role was noteworthy. when i saw it i actually thought 'oh i guess she did finally come out of the closet and i must've missed it in the news' so morbs noting the pride day thing was the first recent acknowledgement i'd seen that she's not officially out. as a straight guy, i'm not going to lecture or judge gay people on the evils of speculating on the sexual orientation of celebrities, that seems like a popular pasttime and it's not really my place to say whether that's a bad thing.

yeah, it just propagates a homophobic environment, drawing lines between US/THEM by setting up the notion that only people of certain sexualities take up a certain job/role/creative endeavor, those just shouldn't be factors at all; yeah the gossip angle is a popular pasttime but it's a terrible one. but i think the same of spectator sports so w/e

lezbihonest tho, couldn't it just as well be argued that refusing to recognize signs of someone's sexuality unless they've explicitly acknowledged it is equally homophobic? (says guy who is continually frustrated that no one seems to recognize i'm gay even tho i make no effort to hide it)

Yeah, I'm with Rev on this one. My issue with the ENTIRE paradigm of how we talk about this stuff is that it's based on the underlying assumption that people are straight by default and we must treat them as such until they explicitly acknowledge that they're queer.