EMERGENCE

Kresge Arts in Detroit Director Michelle Perron and Invincible joined Craig to talk about the foundation's artist fellowship.  Invincible gives WDET a special live, on-air performance of "Cass Corridor," produced by Waajeed.

Click here for the full interview and performance. 

Fresh off of speaking at the Chicago Hip Hop Teach-In's panel on "Hip-Hop and Sexuality: Between Me, You & Liberation", Invincible recently contributed to a piece in Colorlines Magazine "Eight Openly Queer Rappers Worth Your Headphones."

Excerpt:

"Recently, Berkeley-born rapper Lil’ B made headlines after he announced at Coachella that he plans to title his next album “I’m Gay.” The artist, who steadfastly denies actually being gay, says that he’s trying to prove a point, make a statement about misogyny and hip-hop. Or whatever.

Lost in all the hoopla was the fact that there already exists a crop of openly queer rappers who have been making music for years. They’re talented, proud, but when it comes to mainstream media, they’re often ignored. So I reached out to some of the industry’s best and brightest to get their take on the really gay rappers who should be getting our attention. Writer and activist Kenyon Farrow summed up the bigger picture nicely when he wrote in an email: “I wish we could focus more energy and our money on artists in the community, rather than falling all over ourselves for straight people to validate our existence.” 

To wit, here are some folks to fall out over, courtesy of hip-hop heads Invincible, Juba Kalamka and Jeff Chang"...

-Jamilah King

CHECK OUT THE FULL PIECE AT COLORLINES.COM