Hip Hop Stars being Outed?
Hip Hop Stars being Outed?
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#1Hip Hop Stars being Outed?
Posted: 4/22/08 at 2:08pm
What's that you say? Not in the most machoest music ever made! Gays!? Heavens to betsey, no!
Well, a new book is coming out (heh, heh) that claims to have the 411 on hip hop's DL. Not that I'm dying to know who is and isn't gay in hip hop, but I am so tired of this music as a genre it will be nice to see someone blow some holes (ooop, there I go again) into its puffed up exterior.
Will this get people talking about the DL?
HIDING IN HIP HOP
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Updated On: 4/22/08 at 02:08 PM
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
BkCollector
Broadway Star Joined: 2/6/08
#2re: Hip Hop Stars being Outed?
Posted: 4/22/08 at 2:12pmBortal, what makes you tired of this music as a genre? And why as a genre, do you feel it doesn't deserve it's own genre, or are you against Hiphop music on principle?
mateo
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/06
#3re: Hip Hop Stars being Outed?
Posted: 4/22/08 at 2:12pm
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Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#5re: Hip Hop Stars being Outed?
Posted: 4/22/08 at 2:15pm
I'm tired of hip hop because its over. It hasn't been interesting since the mid-nineties. I'm tired of music that all sounds alike. I'm tired of hip hop's domination of pop culture for the last ten years. I'm ready for some new music to take the zeitgeist.
Oh, and because I'm racist. 
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#6re: Hip Hop Stars being Outed?
Posted: 4/22/08 at 2:16pmI hate hook ups with DL rappers! You tell them to come over at 8 and they don't show till after midnight!
#7hip hop stars being outed!
Posted: 4/22/08 at 2:17pmhe really is folks. i saw him in his sheet.
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#8re: Hip Hop Stars being Outed?
Posted: 4/22/08 at 2:20pm
Chris Brown, Mario, Omarion, DMX...sigh!
and the big daddy of them all--LL Cool J
I'd settle for just one of them being gay
BkCollector
Broadway Star Joined: 2/6/08
#9hip hop stars being outed!
Posted: 4/22/08 at 2:20pmSo why do you think it's over. Can you give us an example of what you think was the last great Hip hop artist/album, and why nothing that comes after that compares?
#10hip hop stars being outed!
Posted: 4/22/08 at 2:22pmIf only they'd expand to reggaeton and include Daddy Yankee...
#11hip hop stars being outed!
Posted: 4/22/08 at 2:24pmJust looked up Daddy Yankee...jeez! I am SO not ready for that jelly.
BkCollector
Broadway Star Joined: 2/6/08
#12hip hop stars being outed!
Posted: 4/22/08 at 2:25pmOh Calvin, you read my mind. Dame mas Gasolina!
#13hip hop stars being outed!
Posted: 4/22/08 at 2:28pm
He's gotten a little carby in the more recent photos I've seen, but I think it makes him even hotter.
Or the Optimum Cable sea monster. 
#14hip hop stars being outed!
Posted: 4/22/08 at 2:31pm
Well, you know, the Sea Monster and I have been in love for quite some time.
He's just not ready to commit.
I don't mind a little carby--esp when he's packing what is certainly "heat."
#15hip hop stars being outed!
Posted: 4/22/08 at 2:33pm
"Or the Optimum Cable sea monster. "
LMAO--me, too!
You know, LL Cool J is def as obsessed with his body as any gym queen I know. I just wonder if he's as obsessed with his body as I am with his body.
And there have been rumors about 50 and Eminem. I dunno if the rumors place them together or not.
And what's that slogan for M&Ms? Melts in your mouth, not in your hand?
#16hip hop stars being outed!
Posted: 4/22/08 at 2:35pmMarshall could melt anywhere he wanted on me.
#17hip hop stars being outed!
Posted: 4/22/08 at 2:48pmi love it when it forgets which id it signed in as.
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#18hip hop stars being outed!
Posted: 4/22/08 at 2:51pm
Well, the big rumor is that Eminem was tutored Aristotle-style by Dr. Dre.
From what I understand, Fen, Jay-Z's AMERICAN GANGSTER CD is quite brilliant, but I wouldn't know because I am so over hip-hop.
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~ Muhammad Ali
Updated On: 4/22/08 at 02:51 PM
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#19hip hop stars being outed!
Posted: 4/22/08 at 3:03pmI'd probably like hip hop music if so much of it wasn't about killing guys like me.
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#20hip hop stars being outed!
Posted: 4/22/08 at 3:06pmRoscoe, you just made up for THE ROYAL T's....LMAO!
Jonny boy
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/30/07
#21hip hop stars being outed!
Posted: 4/22/08 at 3:09pmFor me ..... Rap and Hip Hop are very different. I dont like the "Pimp,ho,angry gangster rap", but I do enjoy some intelligent hip-hop like Common, Outcast.....
#22hip hop stars being outed!
Posted: 4/22/08 at 3:18pmAlot of hip hop is dance music too...it's not all pimps and hos and blunts and 40s...not that there's anything wrong with any of those things.
BkCollector
Broadway Star Joined: 2/6/08
#23hip hop stars being outed!
Posted: 4/22/08 at 3:31pm
Yeah, exactly, hip hop is a broad term now. Some even think it encompasses Raegaetton, which is something I"m totally enamored with right now, it's incredible music.
So, in that sense, Hiphop is very much not over, in fact, like Jazz, it's evolving, and is more probably than not, here to stay.
There is some excellent scholarship on Asian influence in hip hop by Ellie Hisama,
#24hip hop stars being outed!
Posted: 4/22/08 at 3:41pmAre we finally getting the truth about Vanilla Ice?
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