Favorite things- Hiphop and Rap go gay.

Male chauvinism in music is a laugh. When they're not calling women hos they're producing music where women act like hos. But let's be honest here, I love me some trashy music, when Ludacris say's "ho tell everyone even the mayor reach up in the sky for the ho-zone layer" I am certain he is attune to the concept of parody. When Sir Mixalot was banging out Baby Got Back in '92 did he realize it would end up in a animated movie about an ogre? Meant for children? When Alanis Morissette put out her My Humps black eyed peas tribute was she just pointing out that it's a mockery of itself already? I do think there are rappers and hip-hop artists out there who are ignorant to the hilarity of their genre, but they're boring it's the self-aware ones that keep me listening.

Rap and hip-hop have crossed into this territory of role play where "artists" don't want to be associated with the culture of violence the songs (allegedly) grew out of and instead develop safe gang characters. It wasn't that much of a step, I draw your attention to the case of Snoop Dogg. So with that to inspire him Marshall Mathers became the foul-mouth Eminem perpetuating his manufactured image with 8 Mile, and Justin Timberlake more recently followed it up with Alpha Dog. It almost makes you forget that Timberlake used to look like this hmmm? Halifax area rappers are trying to do it too; which is the real Buck 65, the one that used to sing in this whiny voice and work at the paperchase cafe, or this raspy voiced star of cbc radio 2&3? Probably neither. Rap is being stolen by white people, by raspy-voiced Canadian heartthrobs, and the most recent threat: the gays.

That's right, a genre that you have held near and dear to your heart is being taken over by the homosexuals. But in the tradition of self-deprecation, self-awareness, character-creation, and "hos" this new breed of rap and hip hop is just as awkwardly forthcoming. Tori Fixx, Gay Pimp, and Cazwell are the latest addition to the foul-mouthed collection of rap and hip hop artists. With songs like 'Woof', 'Soccer Practice' and 'All Over your Face' gays too can have trashy terrible role-models who celebrate the virtues of ho'ing and pimp'ery. Not that we didn't have enough already. Up there with the endearingly vulgar Plastic Little the gays know how to write a hilarious song too. So I'll end the post with I Seen Beyonce at Burger King by Cazwell-- the song least likely to offend: