Events

[HIP HOP] In May, the Huffington Post published an article titled “Is Fly Young Red’s Newest Track Revolutionary?” The conclusion: kind of. The track in question is called “Throw Dat Boy Pussy,” and it’s about gay sex, specifically between black men. It’s certainly not the first track by a gay rapper; rappers like Zebra Katz and Big Freedia (who some may remember held a twerk-a-thon on stage at Soundlab before most people worked the word “twerk” into their daily vocabulary) have been in the rap game for years, but the track does, as writer Bryson Rose put it, “say a lot about the intra-community politics of gender, sexuality, and sexual behavior;” topics that you’d be hard pressed to find flowing from the lips of many other rappers. Critics argued that the song objectifies gay men, while others argue that it helps to liberate gay men in the hip hop sphere; an arena that has not, historically, embraced gay artists. Decide for yourself on Saturday, February 7, when Fly Young Red comes to the Waiting Room for a special event presented by Evergreen Health Services of WNY as party of National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. DJ Yama opens the show.