But of course that hasn’t stopped them from trying.  And despite probably not finding mainstream success anytime soon, these artists including Deadlee (pictured), Captain Magik (pictured in the LAT piece), and Last Offence.  The occasion for the piece was an event this past weekend called Street Cred 101 at Santa Monica’s Highways Performance Space & Gallery.

Khalil Amani, a self-described “spiritual advisor to gay hip-hop” thinks the genre’s time is about to arrive:

“Homophobia is strong, but a gay rapper will cross over; it’s going take the right person at the right time to be a Jackie Robinson,” Amani said. “It’s definitely growing. I personally know at least 130 gay, bisexual or transgendered rappers, whereas only a handful existed even 10 years ago. It will happen, and when it does, a lot of people will be mad and a lot will be excited.”

Apparently Jr. never made it on the LA Times‘ radar, with his inspired spoofs of existing pop songs like “The Boy Is Gay,” but maybe he’s more R&B, or he just hasn’t found the right publicist.

For your listening and viewing pleasure, here’s Last Offence’s “Very Bad Things.”

And here’s Deadlee’s video for “Good Soldier II.”

And here’s the slightly over-earnest “Dilemma” by Captain Magik, which won some Click List thing on Logo.

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Get hip; this is life, y’all (LA Times)
Deadlee’s Myspace page