The Gay Hip-Hop Book
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0:03 - 0:04chchchcheck
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0:04 - 0:06whooooooooo
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0:06 - 0:07"who is the gay rapper?"
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0:07 - 0:10The oldest and stupidest question in the history of HipHop.
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0:10 - 0:14Back in 1996 this magazine named One Nut Network
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0:14 - 0:16published an alleged interview with the anonymous gay rapper,
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0:16 - 0:20and ever since then the more gossipy members of our hip hop nation
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0:20 - 0:22have been in an endless argument about
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0:22 - 0:23"who is the gay rapper?"
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0:23 - 0:25"Who is THE gay rapper?"
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0:25 - 0:26Because as we all know,
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0:26 - 0:28being a gay rapper is like being The Highlander,
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0:28 - 0:31and there can only be one on earth at the same time.
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0:31 - 0:34However and new book just came out named Hiding In HipHop
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0:34 - 0:37by a long time MTV executive named Terrance Dean,
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0:37 - 0:40writing about his life as a gay man in the HipHop world,
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0:40 - 0:42and lo and behold, according to his book,
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0:42 - 0:43there's a lot of gay people in HipHop
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0:43 - 0:45just like every other part of the world,
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0:45 - 0:48because being gay is normal and it happens everywhere.
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0:48 - 0:49I haven't seen the book yet,
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0:49 - 0:52and I'm worried it might just be another Karrine Steffans style
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0:52 - 0:54saucy tell-all memoir,
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0:54 - 0:56but I'm hoping it'll be something more than that
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0:56 - 0:58because HipHop has a whooooole lot of baggage
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0:58 - 1:01around the topic of homosexuality and manhood in general,
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1:01 - 1:05so anything we can do to spark some serious thought and conversation on these issues,
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1:05 - 1:06like that Byron Hurt documentary
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1:06 - 1:08that made Busta Rhymes run for the border,
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1:08 - 1:12the more we can do things like that to challenge ourselves the better.
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1:12 - 1:15Because when we find ourselves believing that killing a man makes us more of a man,
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1:15 - 1:17but loving a man makes us less of a man,
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1:17 - 1:21it's probably time to reexamine our criteria for manhood.
- Title:
- The Gay Hip-Hop Book
- Description:
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http://www.illdoctrine.com
Gonna devote this week to catching up on hip-hop stuff.. Any suggestions on what else to tackle? Yes I will be talking about Suge Knight.
Needless to say, everything I say about hip-hop in this video is pretty much equally true about America as a whole.
- Video Language:
- English
- Duration:
- 01:22