Hip-Hop’s First Gay Tell-All?
November 30, 2006 by Marc Lamont Hill
Following the success of Karrine Stephans’ and Carmen Bryan’s highly sensational memoirs, there was little reason to doubt that more people would follow their lead and write insider tales about the rap world. The next book, however, promises to be the most controversial and dangerous one yet. According to AllHipHop.com, Caushun, the self-titled “Gay Rapper,” is preparing to write a tell-all memoir that will expose various members of the hip-hop community as gay.
First, I would not be surprised if this book never makes it to print. Between law suits and death threats, both of which are inevitable when you expose rappers as queer, there is a very real possibility that Caushun’s project will be shut down before it reaches the editor’s desk.
If the book does make it to press, I worry that it would do more harm than good. Although I think that the hip-hop community would be better served by an open and honest conversation about sexuality, this cannot happen by yanking MCs out of the closet. Instead of teaching the world that sexuality, gender, and masculinity are complex, we would merely ostracize a few rappers and reinforce the already impoverished “Down Low” discourse.
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40 Comments
1. omodiende wrote:
agrred – would be a bad, counterproductive and self-serving move
November 30, 2006 @ 12:22 pm2. Brooklyn101 wrote:
I agree. Can’t lie, I would love to read it, though.
November 30, 2006 @ 12:25 pm3. ChgoSista wrote:
Bless his heart–BLESS HIS HEART, I tell ya! I would also love to read the darn thing if it ever were printed/published. I’m sure I’m not the only one who has heard/read the rumor mills about some of our beloved hip hop stars.
November 30, 2006 @ 12:45 pm4. Hal wrote:
shut up! 
5. Hal wrote:
you are interrupting me while I think about my memoir…
November 30, 2006 @ 12:46 pm6. Hal wrote:
Fees??
Blaxx…are you trying to get in my book?
November 30, 2006 @ 2:05 pm7. Hal wrote:
Dang…you trying to get in the book too??!! This is some bulls**t! You see how people turn on you when money is involved??
And just what would you include in this forward my dear?
November 30, 2006 @ 2:22 pm8. Hal wrote:
true! But some of them will try to sneak it in sometimes on one of the laid back tracks. LOL
9. Hal wrote:
What song are you talking about RAD?
November 30, 2006 @ 2:48 pm10. RAD wrote:
LMAO ChgoSista! You don’t hold nothin back do you!
November 30, 2006 @ 2:54 pm11. Hal wrote:
#22: ewwww… 
12. Hal wrote:
you wanted to go to Atlantic City? LOL!
13. Brooklyn101 wrote:
I don’t know if it’s just me, but because of all the down low talk, I suspect everybody.
November 30, 2006 @ 3:18 pm14. Blaxx wrote:
Fees??
Blaxx…are you trying to get in my book?
Comment by Hal — November 30, 2006 @ 2:05 pm
Nah, I was just tryin to get some of yo paper.
November 30, 2006 @ 3:50 pm15. ChgoSista wrote:
Gee–San–you were 7 y.o. when that song was out–I was what 16–17–so THAT’S why I was ‘moist’. I um, wouldn’t have been moist at SEVEN–hell–can ya even GET moist at seven??? 
16. Blaxx wrote:
Hmmmm….just thought of another guest blog entry
November 30, 2006 @ 4:21 pm17. Piscean Princess wrote:
I’m getting “old”!! When I was 7, rap was just “bubbling”!!
Comment by ChgoSista
Yeah, I feel you! I had that same epiphany a few weeks back (I forget the subject), but after one discussion thread, I started reading some people’s comments where they mentioned what age they were when certain stuff happened. It’s always strange to me when I find out that I am a lot older than lots of folk in my blog community.
November 30, 2006 @ 4:46 pm18. Blaxx wrote:
Well it’s a good thing we don’t discriminate against age here. (We only discriminate against Hal and those who have never seen the movie Love Jones)
November 30, 2006 @ 4:55 pm19. ChgoSista wrote:
Love the point u brought up, Rodney! (re: castigation) It seems the hip-hoppers took Karrine as a big ol’ joke…
LOL @ Blaxx (re: Love Jones)–Here, here!!
November 30, 2006 @ 5:04 pm20. Hal wrote:
Ne-Yo could write a good book? who has he been seen with?
November 30, 2006 @ 5:15 pm21. Hal wrote:
oh okay. Gotcha.
November 30, 2006 @ 5:28 pm22. Blaxx wrote:
I wonder how prison is treating Ronald Isley?
November 30, 2006 @ 5:30 pm23. Hal wrote:
damn..damn…damn…How dare youask that question Blaxx???
November 30, 2006 @ 5:32 pm24. Hal wrote:
damn..damn…damn…How dare you ask that question Blaxx???
November 30, 2006 @ 5:32 pm25. Blaxx wrote:
What is it with black women and hating Wesley Snipes? My sister hates his guts and I never knew why. I think it was that whole Christopher Williams, Halle Berry thing
November 30, 2006 @ 5:38 pm26. Hal wrote:
You can still like that song! What did I say?
November 30, 2006 @ 5:44 pm27. Blaxx wrote:
and they probably will!
Comment by San — November 30, 2006 @ 5:46 pm
Not you too San
November 30, 2006 @ 5:47 pm28. Hal wrote:
Fo Sho! Make sure I look good. Actually, you may be on to something there Ting. Maybe it will be a comic strip. (That would probably be more suitable.)
29. Hal wrote:
I think it applies to everyone who says one thing and then does the other. I can’t write poetry about smoking weed because I don’t. I would be lying. So, when Keith Sweat used to write loves songs and then go home and beat up his wife/girlfriend, then yes, he was being hypocritical.
December 1, 2006 @ 10:38 am30. RAD wrote:
Damn, Keith was a wife beater?
December 1, 2006 @ 10:53 am31. ChgoSista wrote:
RAD–he beat her cuz…she probably complained about his singing–it being completely devoid of pitch and intonation and all… 
32. RAD wrote:
LMAO Hal!
December 1, 2006 @ 11:37 am33. Hal wrote:
I have NEVER listened to that whole song. It never interested me. Maybe I’ll go home and pop it in.
December 1, 2006 @ 11:37 am34. Against :: Sepultura wrote:
Jora Against :: Sepultura Kontorskii …
July 9, 2007 @ 12:01 pm35. Roots of Sepultura :: Sepultura wrote:
Jora Roots of Sepultura :: Sepultura Kontorskii …
July 9, 2007 @ 12:20 pm36. Under A Pale Grey Sky (CD2) :: Sepultura wrote:
Jora Under A Pale Grey Sky (CD2) :: Sepultura Kontorskii …
July 9, 2007 @ 12:25 pm37. Rezz909 wrote:
What a joke. Caushun’s music is WACK!
June 9, 2009 @ 7:02 pm38. yep2010 wrote:
kieth sweat is gay, thats why he beats his gf or wife…DOWN LOW, ask tupac…
October 13, 2010 @ 12:36 am39. theMessnger wrote:
Damn, I never saw the movie Love Jones. Caushun is typically out there. He reminds me of the gay dudes on youtube.
December 17, 2010 @ 8:46 am40. Umoja89 wrote:
This book should definitely get published. the image comintg from these rappers needs to represent their actions and let young GLBT Black people know that there is nothing wrong with who they are. Tupac’s song ‘Thug Passion’ explains it all. Queen Latifah, LL Cool J, 50 Cent and many others have some explaining to do.
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