Homosexuality and Hip-Hop : The Gay Rapper Thread

thought the same thing initially, but the kind of outreach lex was praising isn't necessarily a contest to be the most straight-male-unfriendly. "it's about the audience she actively courts and welcomes into hip-hop."

i'm not arguing lex's point

yeah but all this does is cement the (straight male) notion that (hot) girls want to mess around w/ each other when she has tons of songs & videos centered around 100% hetero relationships

― J0rdan S., Sunday, May 15, 2011 5:07 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

that just sounds like a catch 22 where no matter what she says, you're going to say it plays into what straight people believe or want to believe about bisexuals (or whether they exist etc.). i mean she raps to a chick in the "Lil Freak" video the same way she raps to guys in her other videos.

not that i'm saying she needs to be hailed as a groundbreaker or anything, but it seems like you're just downplaying any small ways she inarguably has broken out of typical female rapper gender roles/sexuality

i'm not arguing lex's point

okay, saw his argument as the hinge around which this was revolving. like, she's relevant to this discussion because...

you still see dinosaurs out there who try to argue that hip-hop is innately a masculine, male space, and to defend it as such, so to have a rapper specifically pull gay men and girly girls (ie not just eye candy or "one of the boys") into it seems pretty important

Missy was the pioneer for this

in my world lots of girly girls loved Missy.

lots of girly girls love macho man rap too though

I can't make out a word of this shit, but it is amazing.

http://soundcloud.com/le1f/omega

Apparently, he's queer, from New York, and some of his shit (not this track) is produced by Nguzunguzu.

^ amazing is the word. love the seasick worz of beats, like crazy wisdom masters or something. the other self-produced track, "☥ + ☥", is kinda cool, too, but nowhere near as mind-blowing. nguzunguzu & boody b tracks are sick, though. fuckin love this guy.

Loving this.

I guess kreayshawn belongs in here? "gucci gucci" vid contains hints about her orientation that get explicit in some of her other vids.

or does it not count if she hangs w/ OF dudes

His twitter is amazing, also.

http://twitter.com/#!/l31f

"Why couldn't I have been born as Amerie? Not fair"
"if it's about cooking, why isn't it baste god?"
"if i had a pussy i would take it out and clit on em"

he's also producing some tracks on the new spank rock

xp http://www.afterellen.com/people/kreayshawn-is-not-a-raging-lesbian-is-an-occasional-lesbian

I like "☥ + ☥"'s Gyptian flip.

wow, totally missed that the fist time through!

those tracks with the symbols for titles aren't gelling for me but i'm really feeling the other stuff

freudian slip

xp

well yeah, i had other things on my mind

(lol)

L31F Le1f
i'm a top unless he puts on swv.

tweet of the year imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8ZeYslcGNg&feature=player_embedded

Btw this tumblr is grrrrrrrrreeaat (also where I discovered L1ef from): http://roughdiamondmtl.tumblr.com/

Katey herself is terrible as a rapper, but everything else about that tracks and video is fantastic

It's bounce music, it ain't goddamn Rakim.

Yeah she's on treme I think

Yeah. Rough Diamond are awesome. Glad we have them. Need to find out who they are IRL.

i was interviewed briefly for this radio programme that's on 1xtra tonight (9pm british time, which is in three hours) if anyone fancies tuning in: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012kllk

No Homo: Hip Hop's Last Taboo

Today, 21:00 on BBC 1Xtra

Hip Hop is constantly evolving. Eminem made it possible to be a credible white rapper, Kanye achieved global success despite his privileged background and Nicki Minaj has played on her sexuality to become one of hip hop's biggest stars. But there's still one boundary the genre is struggling to cross. Where are the gay rappers?

Georgia Lewis-Anderson attempts to uncover the truth, following openly gay spoken-word poet Dean Atta as he takes the first steps to becoming an accepted and respected player on the UK hip hop scene, heading into the studio, performing live and getting that all important first play on national radio.

But are fans ready for an openly gay rapper? And will the industry support him?

Georgia also speaks with Plan B, Example, Estelle, Bashy, Mark Ronson and industry insiders from the UK and US to find out why the prospect of there being a gay rapper is such a taboo.

i like that you got the last word! 'go hard; be good'

pity the dean atta track sounded kind of... dull.

L31F Le1f
i'm not getting gay married until i find a twink that likes soulja boy.
8 Jul

L31F Le1f
i want pointe shoes that are also guns.
28 Jun

what's the status on ab soto. combo quirky street fashion / comedy / rap, cazwellish like from most of what i've heard it's generally too much (or too bad) (because i hate fun) but then i can't hate on for example this. kid's having fun and not the worst beat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvGVvGa4cBw

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

did l31f delete his twitter acct?

http://twitter.com/#!/LE1FNY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90V7p0wh5nY

this been posted? pretty stupid to think that gays are the only ones spreading hiv/aids

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