You're right, I'm just assuming that Latifah is L, the same way I'm assuming the Romneys are not really friends with the Gingriches, despite Mitt's statement the other day.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 May 2012 18:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
i mean, yeah, i agree with marc that doing a pride fest doesn't mean shit, but a lot of other things w/r/t latifah do. at any rate it's the "default to straight" thing that bothers me.
xps
― hologram ned raggett (The Reverend), Thursday, 3 May 2012 18:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
if i was a celebrity i'd be tempted not to officially come out just so i could watch everyone doing their nut "speculating" and making themselves look like twats
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Thursday, May 3, 2012 11:18 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i've kind of assumed latifah's playing this card (tho with the intention of keeping her name in peoples' mouths not out of any petty malice)
― hologram ned raggett (The Reverend), Thursday, 3 May 2012 18:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
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)
what signs are there outside the subject (by which i mean target) explicitly saying what they are that aren't based on stereotyping and gossip?
I also feel like the idea that it's "offensive" requires an assumption that it's "offensive" for a straight person to have to deal with speculation that they're gay,
nah it's just offensive that anyone would have to deal with anyone else speculating what they are period
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 3 May 2012 19:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
i mean, MYOB, etc
says guy who is continually frustrated that no one seems to recognize i'm gay even tho i make no effort to hide it
after enough questions about whether or not i'm security at the club i gave up on caring re: others
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 3 May 2012 19:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
It is offensive to be coy if making one forthright statement would increase tolerance by an ounce.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 May 2012 19:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
and I say that as someone who wishes Elton John would go back IN
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 May 2012 19:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
wherein being "coy" == not caving into or confronting whatever assumptions about you that other people somehow feel they're entitled a response to
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 3 May 2012 19:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
yep, welcome to showbiz:society relationship as it is
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Coyness" is a noun that's effective after the fact -- when the celebrity comes out and explains why they weren't out to the public for years (e.g. Neil Tennant, Ricky Martin).
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
I've yet to form an opinion on this. I might never form an opinion on this.
― fffv, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 02:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
old track with new video, rev initially posted it in feb. nothing alone really got me into blanco but this sold me on things
― fauxmarc, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 15:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
huh, apparently mykki's little brother is one of those NRK pyramid people. i guess that kind of makes vague sense.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 19:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
Black Jewish rapper Y-Love just came out (http://www.out.com/entertainment/music/2012/05/15/y-love-yitz-jordan-hip-hop-jewish-gay)
Latest video, 'focus on the flair'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FSR_tDgTonA
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 20:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
who are the NRK pyramid people?
the "join my militia" video is quite something. "wavvy" is still a better song though
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Thursday, 17 May 2012 10:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
they are a collective vaguely connected to odd future (matt martians of jet age of tomorrow/the internet is a member of both) who are kind of like OF if they were inoffensive and bland
― The Reverend, Thursday, 17 May 2012 18:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
frank ocean
― mississippi joan hart (crüt), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 15:16 (10 months ago) Permalink
is not a rapper
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 15:35 (10 months ago) Permalink
srsly
― some dude nights (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 15:47 (10 months ago) Permalink
Supa hot is not a rapper
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 15:49 (10 months ago) Permalink
what's rap to a non-rapper who don't rap about anything
― some dude, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 15:50 (10 months ago) Permalink
well to be fair to curtis i don't think we have a "gay r&b artist" thread
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 4 July 2012 15:52 (10 months ago) Permalink
sorry, I was more focused on the "homosexuality and hip-hop" part of the thread title. he works within the rap community; also he has rapped before iirc!!
― mississippi joan hart (crüt), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 16:20 (10 months ago) Permalink
We've been talking about this extensively on the Frank Ocean thread
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 18:08 (10 months ago) Permalink
― ♆ (gr8080), Friday, 6 July 2012 03:05 (10 months ago) Permalink
yeah, I bumped this thread before I saw the Frank Ocean thread obv.
― mississippi joan hart (crüt), Friday, 6 July 2012 03:08 (10 months ago) Permalink
lol just noticed this post
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, July 4, 2012 8:49 AM Bookmark
― chain the color of am0n (The Reverend), Friday, 6 July 2012 04:42 (10 months ago) Permalink
Zuper Blahq is not a rapper
― ¥╡*ٍ*╞¥ (sic), Friday, 6 July 2012 05:20 (10 months ago) Permalink
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 19 July 2012 12:43 (10 months ago) Permalink
i think i needed that #homogogo
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 19 July 2012 13:05 (10 months ago) Permalink
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 19 July 2012 16:49 (10 months ago) Permalink
Just got posted in the thread for Dark York: Le1f - Dark York (2012): QPOC SHAKUR / #seapunk
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Thursday, 19 July 2012 17:23 (10 months ago) Permalink
You've got to be fast these days...
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 19 July 2012 17:55 (10 months ago) Permalink
Spoke to Mykki for five minutes before her show tonight (a few folks I know were involved in setting it up and I showed up a bit early).
Cosmic Angel (the mixtape) is supposed to drop in October with production from Brenmar, Teengirl Fantasy and Physical Therapy, and some other folks I forget. She's recording in LA and SF in the next week or two to finish things up before her European tour.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Saturday, 28 July 2012 08:17 (9 months ago) Permalink
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 15:03 (9 months ago) Permalink
based on the screencap, I'll pass.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 15:13 (9 months ago) Permalink
Be grateful you did.
― to welcome jer.fairall, pie is served. (jer.fairall), Friday, 3 August 2012 21:44 (9 months ago) Permalink
should i go see BIG FREEDIA on thursday night at a small-ish club?!?
― the late great, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 01:39 (9 months ago) Permalink
I cannot imagine why you (or anyone) wouldn't.
― to welcome jer.fairall, pie is served. (jer.fairall), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 03:58 (9 months ago) Permalink
Absolutely. Ass is everywhere.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 14 August 2012 04:06 (9 months ago) Permalink
rev & i talked this out a bit behind the scenes but im not sure i see what the pitchfork article did that this article isn't also doing? http://www.alternet.org/comments/medias-problem-gay-rappers
i mean, i think obv there needs to be a balance between defining rappers who are gay as a gay rapper movement & simply ignoring the phenomenon that there are now out gay rappers, (which is to say, there is SOMEthing happening, right?) but I fail to see what the pitchfork article did that made it any worse than what this article is doing.
― protected by viper. stand back. (D-40), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 08:11 (9 months ago) Permalink
Do Kpop girl group rappers count?
They're being promoted in a major way.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 16 August 2012 15:11 (9 months ago) Permalink
With the 'Wavvy' premiere and the increased media coverage, I figured it was time for Mykki to get her own thread - Mykki Blanco - 'Wavvy' and the forthcoming Cosmic Angel mixtape
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 17:51 (9 months ago) Permalink
http://soundcloud.com/zebrakatz/ima-read-ft-gangsta-boo-x
GANGSTA FUCKING BOO
― lex pretend, Thursday, 30 August 2012 13:31 (8 months ago) Permalink
and tricky O_O
Gangsta Boo is great on that but Tricky doesn't work at all. Then again, I've never liked him.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 30 August 2012 19:39 (8 months ago) Permalink
haha i thought tricky had come out of the closet
― some dude, Thursday, 30 August 2012 19:40 (8 months ago) Permalink
That's how I interpreted that as well. LOL
― Regional Tug (irrational), Thursday, 30 August 2012 19:49 (8 months ago) Permalink
i think they both sound really awkward on that track, she's no better than him imo
― Jandek at the Disco (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 30 August 2012 20:14 (8 months ago) Permalink