July 11, 2005

Gay Hip-Hop Festival




hopefully I'll have time to head down and check this out, we need a lot more of this.

Homo Hop Flow: Gay Rappers Bring Pride to Hip Hop’s Birthplace

Homo Hop Flow:
Gay Rappers Bring Pride to Hip Hop’s Birthplace

After attracting over 600 fans and artists at its inauguration in July 2004, the Peace Out East LGBT Hip Hop Festival enters its sophomore year with concerts and screenings that showcase the pioneering work of Homo Hop artists in hip-hop's birthplace, New York City. The Festival represents the growing work of a thriving Homo Hop community, whose very presence challenges the notion of hip hop as an anti-gay art form.

LGBT rappers, hip hop artists and fans from localities throughout the East Coast and the country, converge in NYC from Friday, July 15th, through Sunday, July 17th. Peace Out East empowers local artists and fans through increasing viable artistic, professional and networking opportunities for both established and emerging Homo Hop artists.

“Hip-hop itself is not homophobic,” notes Paradigm, B.Q.E. member and co-producer of Peace OUT East. “Music is a tool; it can be used to build or destroy,” she continues, “Some people use hip-hop to be homophobic. We use it to build up our people, affirm our heritage as queers, as people of color, and as artists.”

Peace Out East opens on Friday, July 15th, at the Bowery Poetry Club at 10:00pm.


Schedule

WORD/LIFE: Emcees and Poets in the Life
Friday, July 15, 2005; 10:00 pm
Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery @ Bleecker
Live music and spoken word featuring Baron, Dewayne Dickerson, Buttaflysoul, Tim’m, Claudia Alick, Yvie E., DJ Daryl Raymond & DJ Rollz Royce; hosted by Exodus

Homo Hop Showcase
Saturday, July 16, 2005; 10:00 pm
Galapagos Art Space
70 N. 6th Street @ Wythe Avenue
Live performances by Soce the Elemental Wizard, El-Don, Da Lyrical, Aggracyst, Shayvonna, Hip-hop dancer Pino; DJ Dutchboy & DJ Fucci.

Screening: "The Straight Black Folks' Guide to Gay Black Folks" and "Incursions in Chunk"
Saturday, July 16, 2005; 1:00 pm
International Action Center, 39 West 14th St. #206

Peace Out East Final Concert
Sunday, July 17, 2005; 9:00 pm
Nuyorican Poets Café
236 E. 3rd Street @ Ave B
Featuring BQE, Shorty Roc, KIN, JB RAP, Brick Citizenz, Ricoshade & God-Des featuring Tina G.

Interviews and photos available upon request.

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See also:
http://www.peaceouteast.com

Posted by jsmooth995 at July 11, 2005 5:30 PM | TrackBack
Comments

"The Festival represents the growing work of a thriving Homo Hop community"

Homo Hop? Ooooookay!

Posted by: Hashim at July 11, 2005 6:40 PM

Thanks for posting that. Wish I could make it up there for that.

Posted by: ej at July 12, 2005 6:02 AM

Well it's a lot more mature than the 12-year-old (!) "Who's the gay rapper?" thread ... as if there was only one rapper in the history of hip-hop who'd kept his sexual preference a secret.

Posted by: Joe Grossberg at July 12, 2005 11:49 AM

just to be clear, my "Ooooookay!" was in reaction to the name "Homo Hop", not gays in hip-hop.

Posted by: Hashim at July 12, 2005 4:45 PM

I was scheduled to play this hsow on Saturday, unfortunately do to the money ive spent trying to get my album pressed i want able to attend. I performed last year, it was pretty ill.

meanwhile. Me and DJ Klustor dropped this promo for the album last night.

Bump this shit in your spaceship whip.

www.aggracyst.com/promo/roachx1.mp3

enjoy!!

Posted by: aggracyst at July 16, 2005 10:06 PM

Yo, the festival was a blast.. thanks for making a post about this!! Look out for Peace Out (Oakland, CA), Peace Out NorthWest (Portland, OR), Peace Out UK, Peace Out South (Atlanta, GA), and much more to come!! Gay hip hop.. we in the building!

Peace.. check out my music video-- just click on my name to see it--

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Gay Rapper Showcase:

Come Check out "Da Life's Illest MC", Shorty Roc perform his underground banger, "Rappers Delight '06" (a song about if rappers were gay) in two performances this weekend. Shorty Roc will be performing new joints off his upcoming new cd "Personal"

May 18, 2006
Langstons Night Club
Harmonica Sunbeam Benefit Party
1068 Atlantic Avenue
Between Franklin and Classon aves
Admission: $10
Performing "Rappers Delight '06"

May 21, 2006
Groove
125 Macdougal Street cor of W 3rd
New York, NY
Admisson: $5
Performing a Full Showcase 20-25 of Hot Joints!

come to www.myspace.com/shortyrocdamic for music and other upcoming shows

Posted by: Shorty Roc at May 17, 2006 3:29 PM

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