It’s not new but it IS just in time for Summer. DJ Dre Skull’s Sissy Bounce Mix available over at XLR8R, this is a nice sample of the gay hip hop scene in New Orleans. Featuring Sissy Nobby, Big Freedia, and Katey Red. If you need some booty slamming nelly crunk, this is your stuff. Also check out the photo blog.
My gut is to be offended by things that look like this: bounce-rap with rump shaking video girls that really never stop shaking their respective rumps, all the while some man is yelling into the microphone behind them. BUT, then Sissy Nobby, in all his permed glory, starts to shake his rump and after a while you see that he has spent soooo much more time practicing how to shake his generous rump than they have. This type of aggressive music isn’t so much for the everyday, but more for a live setting. It’ll get you laughing and horny, and I’m pretty sure that is why BUTT has this totally queer rap on their roster for BANG.
Oh man, I’m so excited about Lester Greene. You know how most people have left myspace and now only use it to listen to new music? Well splish-splashing in the sea of mediocre adds (I do check out all queer bands that friend TPR) was Lester Greene, an MC and producer. Dripping with personality, not since Johnny Dangerous have I seen such bravado: this guy’s chest puffing reaches DD cups, and luckily he has the skills to back it up. Tracks like “Swerve” actually do twist and turn around the backbeat, and when Greene busts out the auto-tune, he sounds like the best Kanye and T-Pain moments put together. And in case you didn’t know he could kid around, his album will be called “No Bush, Straight Dicks.” Check out some downloads below, and show him some love on the myspace.
It’s not too rare that a band, stewing in the underground for years finally gets some attention and then breaks up. Yo Majesty seems to be going that route, with recent public dramatix for all of us to enjoy. The stories are not yet synced into one press release, but the main thing is, Jwl B went to jail during tour and Shunda K was very vocal about how relieved she was that Jwl B was gone. Jwl B got out of jail, returned to the tour and then Shunda K decided to leave the tour and just do her own solo shows. I was able to catch Yo Majesty a few years back and thought that while Jwl B’s bare-breasted growl added some hot layering, Shunda K’s flow was the heart. Updates on the whole story arc over at Out Hip Hop, in the meantime, Shunda K released a really dam hot solo EP for free, download it here:
Individual track download……
1. Kotchy & Shunda K – First Encounter
2. Kotchy & Shunda K – You Are
3. Kotchy & Shunda K – We Feelin’ Each Other
4. Kotchy – Holla
or download the full EP HERE
Thanks to a few blown-out-of-context media pranks, Kanye’s sexuality has been at the top of many gossip pantries. Even TPR’s post about Terrance Dean’s book Hiding in Hip Hop, that went up ages ago, is still getting major hits. People must love them some closeted celebs! I’m not going to call it on Kanye. I do want to note that recently, he was confronted about his style and sexuality on MTV and never once did he say anything that was fearful or hateful. Of course, he was all Kanye about it, and made everything about how awesome he thinks he is, but considering how many opportunities he has had to just scream “I am not a faggot!” he’s been playing it well. The above photo got him some unnecessary shit over hanging with gay guys (you can’t be an artist and not), the below quotes are from the MTV interview. Watch the vid of his spot and the “I ain’t gay” freestyle he did on camera here. Thanks to Chicago’s best hip hop blog, Fake Shore Drive for the tip.
I’m doing a blog right now where I’ve been collecting all of the freshest stuff that’s rainbows — Denver Nuggets jerseys, BAPE shoes, Nikes with rainbows on ’em — and saying, “Man I think as straight men we need to take the rainbow back because it’s fresh.” It looks fresh. I just think that because stereotypically gay people got such good like style that they were smart enough to take a fresh-ass logo like the rainbow and say that it’s gonna be theirs. But I was like “Man I think we need to have the rainbow” — the idea of colors , life and colors and stuff, I mean how is that a gay thing? Colors? Having a lot of colors is gay?
Sway: You once were quoted saying that you were inspired in fashion by how gay people dress.
West: And you know what? That’s when I was ignorant to gays. ‘Cause there’s a lot of gay people who don’t dress good at all. There’s a lot of gay people that I dress way better than.
Think Pink Radio 