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Your first EP, Uncomplicated Bake Oven, was released in 2011 and your unused EP, The Eulogy, came out this January. When you look at the two projects, what do you watch in your evolution?
With the first plan, the statement was to prove that I could rap. No one knew who I was. I wanted to separate myself from other LGBT artists but also from other artists in general. I wanted to be esteemed as a lyricist. So, on that EP, the sound is a lot more aggressive.
After I released it, I didn't undertake a lot of recording; I did a lot more writing. So, the growth from the first project to the second undertaking, is me saying "fuck the system; fuck what you expect of me; I need to establish myself as a creative person and entity." So, it's a lot more genuine.
Starting out you felt like you needed to prove yourself. What do you feel like you need to validate now?
Honestly, with this new project, and I've never told anyone this before but -- I want to be on the XXL Freshman Cover. It's a weird thing because I don't really need to be on it. But to be on it would just be so great. That's what I'm working toward.
And, out of curiosity, who is making music that you personally are really into right now?
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GIRL TALK: Shooting the Breeze with Gay Rapper Cazwell
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Those crystal-clear blue eyes. That swagger. The impossibly catchy videos that build you want to move (and maybe touch yourself) for days. How could you help but treasure Cazwell? Lucky for us, the gay rapper/songwriter/producer/sex pistol is back on the proverbial scene with a brand new single, “Guess What?,” and a video to match, starring electro princess Luciana. Even luckier for us, he’s coming to Philly this weekend to perform it at Tabu.
This will only be Cazwell’s second time doing a show in the 215, so I rang him up this week to get a experience for what he had in store for us. From there the conversation took an inevitable shift toward his collaborations with Amanda Lepore and Peaches, when his album, tentatively titled Hard 2 B Fresh, will be out, and I asked him about what he looks for in a male so all you Philly fellas can step up your game for a possible rendezvous. Apparently he’s single and “ready t
On his 1992 track "Horny Lil' Devil," Ice Cube sums up a usual theme in hip-hop: "True niggaz ain't gay." The world of rap, particularly the small but highy publicized circle dominated by acts like DMX and Eminem, tends to observe hypermasculine icons, men who trumpet their toughness through lyrics packed with force and explicit discussion of their sexual conquests; gays are often referred to as "faggots."
It comes as no shock, then, that not a single openly gay hip-hop artist has ever gathered a significant national following. But Caushun, a 23-year old former celebrity hairstylist from Brooklyn, N.Y., hopes to switch that. With his humor, charisma and a essential boost from his industry-insider pals-songwriter-producer Ivan Matias among them-Caushun is gunning to become hip-hop's first homosexual mainstream star. He's just halfway through recording his first album, "Proceed With Caushun," but his rare perspective has drawn the attention of several major labels.
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Eminem canta em ‘velocidade supersônica’ no novo single ‘Rap God’
RIO — Eminem está de volta ao centro das atenções nos EUA, com os fãs e a crítica especializada exaltando a qualidade de seu novo single, "Rap God", enquanto muitos lamentam o teor homofóbico de trechos da quilométrica letra. A ONG Stonewall classificou a canção de "ultrapassada e profundamente ofensiva", alegando que o rapper ficou "preso no século passado".
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As a transgender lesbian lady who has listened to rap her whole animation, nothing scares me anymore. Living this life is like the meme of the ant with a stick and bag slung over his shoulder—you don’t want it. I possess become so accustomed to being the butt of the joke that I can predict when a rapper is going to drop a slur based on their rhyme scheme. Unfortunately, the negative lyrics are something I acquire come to terms with. Rap music is so integral to my Ebony identity that sometimes I try to turn a blind eye, like when grandma says something a little strange at the Thanksgiving function. Rarely execute I feel seen and heard by the occasionally popular queer rapper; I am usually having my ears harassed by a homophobic 40-year-old dude in a Rocawear hat.
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