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"Gawd, that group is so gay, and proud of it.
These self-defined "BourgieBohoPostPomoAfroHomos"
get the word out to hip-hop haters and
enthusiasts. Their lyrics are brainy and
political, but their live shows
are pure animal energy. Check 'em out."
--
on Deep Dickollective
voted BEST HIP HOP GROUP
in the
2003 San Francisco Bay Guardian's
"Best Of The Bay" Readers Poll
7/30/2003
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"The collective uses live instruments and
plays with forms the way the experimental
rappers the Roots do. Its rappers,
or M.C.'s, rhyme with the intellectual
revolutionary pose of Chuck D and the
erudition of Cornel West. "
from the feature
"Gay Rappers: Too Real for Hip-Hop"
by Touré,
New York Times Arts Section
Sunday,4/20/2003
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Given the impress hip-hop has had on culture
internationally, the interventions lyrically
and politically of a group of queer Negroes
is bound to have ripple effects.
The point is that Deep Dickollective represents
a "coming out" in hip-hop about what some
of us have known for a long time:
that any black cultural Renaissance needs fags.
There is no cypher without the sissy-
whether they appear as the abject reference
of the insecure closet fagrapper or whether
the fervor with which they approach lyricism,
beatmaking, graffiti art, or breakin has
inspirations that have been cloaked in
compulsory silence.
The fag has entered and the cypher is stalled.
The anti-gangster aesthetic of quasi-Nationalist
"conscious" hip-hoppers and bohemian MC thrift
shoppers pave a space for D/DC to articulate
its word play.They represent a political lyricism
that does not take itself too seriously. They are
the brave mavericks of a movement that some
affectionately refer to as homo-hop. They are
Oxymoronic "out" black queer Emcees the world says
do not exist. They are the rumblings of a
revolution that have for too long been silenced.
Overstand? It's not that deep.
"MOVIN'" 7" vinyl now available thru
www.AGITPROPRECORDS.com
"The Famous Outlaw League Of Proto Negroes"
available from Sugartruck Recordings
in December 2003.
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