And Caushun’s lyrics are at least as attention-garnering as his acquaintances: “I’m the gayest of all time/I can show you who’s greater/Suck that dick till it swell up to the size of a skyscraper” he shouts without mincing on “Gay Rapper’s D-Lite.” His manager and producer, Ivan Matias, is one of the biggest names in the industry, having worked with Toni Braxton, Outkast and Monica. As a hairdresser for the stars by day, he messed with the heads of Jennifer Lopez, Kim Cattrall, Sarah Michelle Geller and the lesbian of the hour, Rosie O. While he personally knows of several closeted gay rappers and hip-hop artists, he’s one of the very few openly gay people in that scene. In ’91, Ice Cube remarked flat out, “True niggaz ain’t gay.” A decade later, that view remains largely unchanged.Ĭaushun is somewhat of an anomaly. But despite this, the genres remain notoriously rigid in their critical opinions of gays. A gay hip-hop scene has begun to emerge as a nascent force independent of its straight counterpart, and groups like Rainbow Flava and MorPlay have made the advancement of queer hip-hop their modus operandi. In recent years, hip-hop and rap have taken baby steps out of their homophobic shells. But Jason Herndon, better known as Caushun, hasn’t let that deter him one bit.īorn and raised in Brooklyn, the epicenter of the hip-hop phenomenon, Caushun has used his skills to bridge the sexual divide that alienates gays from the scene. Not exactly a welcome wagon of sentiments for a 24-year-old gay rapper looking to break into the industry. There’s DMX’s vibrantly visual “Well in the back wit ya faggot ass face down/Lucky that you breathin’ cause you dead from the waist down.” Then there’s Snoop Doggy Dogg’s passionate recoil “I can’t believe that dog would dis me/That faggot, that punk, piss on that sissy.” And of course, the ever-popular Eminem and his laconic and succinct “Hate fags? The answer’s yes.” Collectively, rap and hip-hop artists have pretty much cornered the market on gay bashing.
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