Apparently, yes.

According to his book, there's a lot of gay people in hip-hop. Just like every other part of the world. Because being gay is... normal, and it happens everywhere.

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Hip-hop has a whole lot of baggage around the topic of homosexuality and manhood in general. So anything we can do to spark some serious thought and conversation on these issues... the more we can do things like that to challenge ourselves, the better.

Cause when we find ourselves thinking that killing a man makes us more of a man, but loving a man makes us less of a man, it's time to reexamine our criteria for manhood.

'Cause see, the real reason why I shy away from embracing hip-hop wholeheartedly is videos like this one. 'Cause when men find themselves thinking that hitting it from the back makes them more of a man, but loving a woman from the front (and back!) makes them less of a man, it's time to reexamine their criteria for manhood.

Also, you'd be surprised at how many women would totally jump in the sack with you if you just gayed up for them.

The video blog:

The link for RSS feeds that don't like my video embeds

"he just had this kind of bounciness, positive energy..."
"he was known for the... suicide, where he would jump up and land on his butt or on his back... I like to call it atomic ass drop"
"he was all about that connection, and I think that's a really essential part of what b-boying being is, that people make a connection with other people. Like any art form."


Link to JSmooth's post

Coincidentally, I saw this trailer for Planet B-Boy last weekend at the movies. Before Run Fatboy Run. I'm sure someone could do some riffing on the cultural implications of that juxtaposition. I'm too busy waxing nostalgic about the NYC-style street culture of my youth adolescence, though.