Homosexuality and Hip-Hop : The Gay Rapper Thread

can't watch that right now but yeah, duh, that's a long-ago debunked talking point wrt hiv transmission

haha yeah i was with him till then

well actually i was with him till he added the red star to his face tat

Better than butterfly face tat imo

there's no such thing as a "good" face tat

oh, so this is what alfred does in his spare time?

not only do I get down, I wash dishes.

haha, i was afraid that was a zing in the woods.

recently a guy i know's been at the center of a 'gay rapper' controversy -- basically he's been on the local battle rap circuit for a few years, has a slight lisp and has been dressing more loud/hipsterish lately, decided to respond to gay rumors by spitting some o_O innuendo at a battle to throw an opponent off his game. then when video of the battle got online, it ended up all over worldstarhiphop, thisis50 as 'the gay battle rapper'. he says he's straight so i dunno how he's dealing with all this but it's pretty nuts.

― it ain't hard to tell, I'm a viking, then prevail (some dude), Wednesday, April 28, 2010 4:48 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark

http://citypaper.com/bob/artsentertainment/best-coming-out-1.1205783

Awesome.

he's a really good guy and a really talented dude, i hadn't even heard about that until just now reading that link so i'm just happy for him

sny recommendations of tracks/mixtapes?

molding his hard-edged rhymes into an inexplicable roughneck hip-hop-meets-house-diva intensity

this sounds like what i want

is this is also the dark gay dancehall thread http://generationbass.com/2011/10/24/gb-exclusive-blk-adonis-rizzla-pnp-ep/

not rap, but this new le1f track is amazing (badu sample!)

http://soundcloud.com/le1f/boody-le1f-born-underwater

also I should post some DDm in here cause his shit is dope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymeIMeQm0Vw&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVqBhbY0bVw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIQ3Hg6XJXs&feature=related

lil b can hang his shit up

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

thumbs up

lol @ the idea of a gay mafia running rap. that would be kind of fabulous

i didn't want it to make sense but really he seemed to be talking more about the promo/showbiz angle as being on lockdown by our gay overlords which really isn't toooo overblown

not the first time I've heard that proferred... I dunno, it's not really inaccurate (gay people in the entertainment industry?! you don't say) as long as it's not couched in weird conspiracy theory terms

lol @ "if you're gay, rep your set"

one of my friends works with this guy "loco ninja", he's someone up in the fashion crowd so i had pause but this is alright

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH9vY72YtuY

kind of lol but mostly sad at carefully gender-neutral lyrics. always <3 lumidee tho.

unfortunately someone once referred to her as a "human muppet" and i'll never get that out of my head even though i guess it applies less during the GROWN N SEXY phase

i don't even get that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo4Sqt2Bmag&feature=related

there's a free ep with some crazy good remixes btw http://hulkshare.com/i7pdydyrlldr

that video's amazing

a j-wow remix too niceeee. still not over a buraka som sistema show from weeks back

waooooow.....

that video's amazing

― fauxmarc, Monday, January 23, 2012 7:57 AM Bookmark

Really tho! I feel so slayed. Too bad I think we're the only two who read this thread anymore.

song + video both awesome

http://soundcloud.com/cakesdakilla/whistle-beat-it-up

song + video both awesome

That Zebra Katz track is sublime and a little chilling

total maya deren vibe to the video. great track although she's quite a bit bitter than he is.

i feel like that video and song are both the type of thing i usually hate/roll my eyes at but they're both awesome

"ima read" is slaying me <3

I read the thread, Rev! I just usually have heard/seen/spoken about this stuff with u/other folk over on Tumblr by the time I do.

Ima Read is awesome.

i also read this thread

ima read is dope

yeah i def lurk here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga6pkoomSVg

lol

btw the song brainwasher linked to is awesome

freedia did kimmel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ptXcud3cjY

man it's kinda tripping me out that straight-up n.o. bounce is getting this kind of shine in 2012

http://soundcloud.com/le1f/gomorrah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d1OVYM2Ec0

Not explicitly gay but not the straightest thing either. Video is banned from Korean TV supposedly because the song title is a slang phrase. Diplo did the beat.

i don't know if a lot got lost in translation or if that was intended to come off as completely bizarre as it did. i'm guessing somewhere in between.

It's a very literal translation, so it reads weirder than it is. But the song is also very weird because it is a brag rap song but the stuff they are bragging about is weird! Like TOP's "my eyelashes are natural not the result of disgusting heavy makeup" thing, which if you think about it means he is comparing himself either to makeup-wearing guys or to (hot?) girls. Or GD's stuff about stage presence and charisma followed up by BUT AT NIGHT, I'M SO LONELY.

Also, the fact that it's not super straight but overcompensates with tons of playboy bunny girls, lol.

In context it's slightly less weird, because all the stuff they are bragging about is actually stuff that really did make them super duper famous in Korea, as part of the mainstream idol group BigBang (whose touchstones are "being crazy", a confidence/insecurity divide, depression/bipolar disorder, and gay/transgender subtext). But it's still really weird to see that stuff in a hip hop song, and the styling is also, pretty bizarre.

that big freedia performance is awesome

pretty dope on kimmel's ppl's part

it's really easy to hear that "knock out" chorus as "i just broke a guy off"